Half a Look of Cain: A Fantastical Narrative (Phenomenology and Existential) - Hardcover

Goyen, William; Gibbons, Reginald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081015031X ISBN 13: 9780810150317

Verlag: Northwestern University Press, 1994

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Book by Goyen William

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"A highly charged lyrical tribute to the powers and terrors of 20th-century love and lust." --Chicago Tribune "William Goyen has always been the most mysterious of writers. He is poet, singer, musician as well as storyteller; he is a seer, a troubled visionary; a spiritual presence in a national literature largely deprived of the spiritual." --Joyce Carol Oates

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"I was twenty when I followed away from my town a trapeze family, aerialists, a group of beautiful winged people, mother, father, son and daughter. They were the Ishbels." Chris, whose leg is injured, and his lover Stella, with whom he lives in a ruined, abandoned house; Chris's male nurse; Marvello the circus aerialist; a lighthouse keeper; a flagpole sitter in small-town America - these are the creatures of William Goyen's visionary fable of love, lust, and loneliness. Half a Look of Cain: A Fantastical Narrative was written in the 1950s and early 1960s, and is now being published for the first time. Part fable and part rhapsodic exploration of desire and loss, Half a Look of Cain bears Goyen's unmistakable artistic signature on every page. Too far ahead of its time in its swirling visionary structure, this novel was rejected by Goyen's first publisher as not sufficiently commercial and remained unpublished despite extensive revisions. The novel is shaped as a group of "medallions" - a series of related episodes. It dreams of defying mortality - as if living in the air, like the aerialists or the flagpole sitter - and of finding perfect companionship in lover and friend. The novel is both a rediscovered cry against the conformity and suppressed emotions of the 1950s and a celebration of passion. Reginald Gibbons has edited the novel from the author's multiple manuscripts and has contributed an illuminating afterword.

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• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 081015031X
• ISBN 13: 9780810150317
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136