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William H. Gass

Cartesian Sonata

And Other Novellas

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From the award-winning author of The Tunnel and Finding a Form--four interrelated novellas that explore Mind, Matter, and God. In the first novella, Gass redefines Descartes' philosophy. God is a writer in a constant state of fumble. Mind is represented by a housewife who is a modern-day Cassandra. And Matter is, what (and who) else but the helpless and confused husband of Mind. In the novella that follows, the concept of salvation is explored through material possessions--a collection of kitsch--as a traveling businessman is slowly lost in the sheer surfeit of matter in a small Illinois town. In another, Gass explores the mind's ability to e… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-8041-5091-0
  • EAN: 9780804150910
  • Produktnummer: 15721652
  • Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 272 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'928 KB

Über den Autor


William H. Gass-essayist, novelist, literary critic-was born in Fargo, North Dakota. He is the author of seven works of fiction and nine books of essays, including Life Sentences, A Temple of Texts, and Tests of Time, and was a professor of philosophy at Washington University. He died in 2017.

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