Glenway Wescott

Apartment in Athens

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Like Wescott's extraordinary novella The Pilgrim Hawk (which Susan Sontag described in The New Yorker as belonging among the treasures of 20th-century American literature), Apartment in Athens concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer, Wescott stages an intense and unsettling drama of accommodation and rejection, resistance and compulsion-an account of political oppression and spiritual struggle that is also a parable about the costs of closeted identity.

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Weitere Autoren: Leavitt, David

ISBN: 978-1-59017-081-6
EAN: 9781590170816
Produktnummer: 21575821
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 296 S.
Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D2.0 cm 306 g
Gewicht: 306

Über den Autor

Glenway Wescott (1901-1987) was the author of the novels The Grandmothers and Apartment in Athens, in addition to several collections of stories and essays. His life-as revealed in his published journals and a joint biography of him and his lover, Monroe Wheeler-has been the subject of increasing interest in recent years. David Leavitt 's books include The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer and the novel The Indian Clerk, a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner Prize and the IMPAC /Dublin Literary Award. He co-directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Florida.