The Wife of Martin Guerre - Softcover

Lewis, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804011435 ISBN 13: 9780804011433

Verlag: OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013

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Críticas:

"One of the most significant short novels in English."- Atlantic Monthly "Janet Lewis brings the haunting qualities of fable to this novella, based on a legal case that attracted wide attention in 16th-century France and has continued to fascinate down through the years."- Ron Hansen, The Wall Street Journal "A masterpiece...a short novel that can run with Billy Budd, The Spoils of Poynton, Seize the Day, or any other."- Larry McMurtry, The New York Review of Books "Flaubertian in the elegance of its form and the gravity of its style." - The New Yorker "When the literary history of the second millennium is written at the end of the third, in the category of dazzling American short fiction (Janet Lewis's) Wife of Martin Guerre will be regarded as the 20th century's Billy Budd and Janet Lewis will be ranked with Herman Melville." - The New York Times "One of the last century's great novels." - A Commonplace Blog "The Wife of Martin Guerre by Janet Lewis is one of the most resonant short novels I can remember. I greatly like two other books she wrote: The Trial of Soren Qvist and The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron. She never got the attention she deserved."- Evan S. Connell, Jr.

Reseña del editor:

In this new edition of Janet Lewis's classic short novel, The Wife of Martin Guerre, Swallow Press executive editor Kevin Haworth writes that Lewis's story is \u201ca short novel of astonishing depth and resonance, a sharply drawn historical tale that asks contemporary questions about identity and belonging, about men and women, and about an individual's capacity to act within an inflexible system.\u201d Originally published in 1941, The Wife of Martin Guerre has earned the respect and admiration of critics and readers for over sixty years. Based on a notorious trial in sixteenth-century France, this story of Bertrande de Rols is the first of three novels making up Lewis's Cases of Circumstantial Evidence suite (the other two are The Trial of S\u00f6ren Qvist and The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron). Swallow Press is delighted and honored to offer readers beautiful new editions of all three Cases of Circumstantial Evidence novels, each featuring a new introduction by Kevin Haworth.

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• Verlag: OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0804011435
• ISBN 13: 9780804011433
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 138