Louis Zukofsky

Collected Fiction

Buch

Zukofsky (1904-78) is the great musician of difficulty in the American modernist band: words, in his poetry, are motes of magnetized dust swirling in light. His prose is slighter, best enjoyed on the terms of the rather precious connoisseurship it demands. The major work here is the novella, Little, about a child prodigy modeled after Zukofsky's own violin virtuoso son, Paul (who provides an afterword here). It's a fey and airy piece, funny for its Yiddish-based names - von Chulnt, Verchadet, Dreykup (a portrait of Ezra Pound) - and its light comedy supporting the trials of art-making among the vulgarians. But story or character is less than… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Zukofsky, Paul / Zukofsky, Paul (Bearb.) / Sorrentino, Gilbert (Bearb.)

ISBN: 978-1-56478-156-7
EAN: 9781564781567
Produktnummer: 9097681
Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Auflage: 2. A.

Über den Autor

Louis Zukofsky spent forty-sixyears writing his masterwork A, and died beforehe could see the completed versionpublished. Poet, translator, fictionwriter, essayist, anthologist, critic, teacher, WPA worker, and bindingforce of the Objectivist poets, Zukofsky was born in New York Cityand lived in or near the city hiswhole life.