The Death of Picasso: New and Selected Writing
When Guy Davenport looks at the world, the world changes; sometimes just a little and sometimes a lot. And no reader is the same after reading his or her first Davenport essay or story. He is a writer perfectly described by the term singular and in praising his work, from fiction to poetry, from translations to essays, critics all over the world have noted his unique manner, his remarkable erudition and his startling humor. He is the finely realized perfection of high modernism blended with an American sensibility as old as Emerson's.The way I write about texts and works of art, Davenport has written, has been shaped by forty years of explain…
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- ISBN: 978-1-59376-002-1
- EAN: 9781593760021
- Produktnummer: 9140255
- Verlag: Counterpoint Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 379 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B16.1 cm x D3.1 cm 640 g
- Gewicht: 640
Über den Autor
Guy Davenport was a writer, illustrator, teacher, and scholar. He is best known for his modernist-style short stories, but his range of works is wide, spanning poetry, translation, and criticism. He was a professor of English for three decades, having taught at Haverford College and the University of Kentucky.
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