Uncommon Ground: A Celebration of Matt Cohen - Softcover

Gibson; Gibson, Graeme

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0676974864 ISBN 13: 9780676974867

Verlag: VINTAGE CANADA, 2003

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"It has a wonderful, harmonic, jazz-like fluidity.... The whole book is greater than the sum of its parts and no soloist (no matter how outstanding) causes it to lose the beat. That said, there are some splendid individual efforts." -- "The Globe and Mail
"The level is high. Dennis Lee's superbly crafted funeral eulogy is a model of how to remember a writer's life. Margaret Atwood's analysis of Cohen as a fabulist...contains a wonderfully succinct sumary of Canadian literary fashions since the 1960s. Steven Hayward's description of being mentored by Cohen is curiously affecting..... Anyone interested in Canadian writing should find this book absorbing." -- "The Kingston Whig-Standard
"These interviews, articles and remembrances, gathered in celebration of Cohen, argue Cohen's distinctive contribution to Canadian literature.... Cohen left behing a wealth of brilliant writing, not as well known as it should be.... The dialogue and discussion bound together in Uncommon Ground comprise a complex and sophisticated discussion of Canadian writing, what it does and what it means. That in itself is a wonderful effect, generated by the quick, irreverent goad of Matt Cohen and his work." -- "Edmonton Journal
"There is much sadness -- as well as joy -- in Uncommon Ground....When one book takes you gently by the hand to another, somehow, ever so slightly, that helps mute the feeling of loss." -- "Calgary Herald
"A wonderfully luminescent look into the legacy of the multifaceted and elusive Canadian writer Matt Cohen....The book is required reading for anyone who wants to get a handle on Cohen, whose reputation will likely grow in the years ahead." -- "Canadian Jewish News
"Uncommon Ground is a treasure trove for those already conversant with the celebrated writer who left a rich legacy of both brilliant prose and petulant complaint.... A handy companion to any revisiting of Cohen's work." -- Nancy Schiefer, "The London Free Press

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In which a stellar group of writers from Canada and beyond discuss the impact of Matt Cohen's legacy -- with respect and affection, and always in the spirit of the festschrift.
The more-than-thirty contributions to this volume range from accounts of significant moments spent with Matt Cohen to thoughtful commentary on his writing, and include pieces by Margaret Atwood, George Bowering, Stan Dragland, Greg Hollingshead, John Irving, Janet Lunn, Don McKay, Alice Munro, and Monique Proulx.
Matt Cohen's thoughtful reserve combined with charm and a dazzling, absurdist sense of humour made him a rather paradoxical personality. That he felt both sun and shade in his career as a writer was apparent. He told Monique Proulx that "When a novel starts to come into my mind, it's like music...and my purpose in entering into writing it -- which will be years, it's always years -- is to hear it more perfectly." Yet he also told her how he sees his place in Canadian literature: "There's a room in which people are handing each other out the parts they could play, but I'm not even in the room."
While he often felt he stood outside Canadian literary fashion, Cohen spent his life creating works of a classic but deeply personal quality -- from the depth of feeling in the Salem novels through the multi-century Jewish triptych that followed, to the high achievement of his last two novels, Last Seen and Elizabeth and After, and his candid, posthumous memoir, Typing: A Life in Twenty-Six Keys. He also made an extraordinary contribution to children's literature under the closely guarded pseudonym Teddy Jam. And as a translator he was a powerful force bringing the French and English writers of Canadainto a better understanding of their common ground.

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• Verlag: VINTAGE CANADA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0676974864
• ISBN 13: 9780676974867
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 311