The solitary twin - Softcover

Mathews, Harry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811227545 ISBN 13: 9780811227544

Verlag: W W Norton & Co, 1900

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An imagination and an ingenuity that are often just astonishing.

Like Roubaud and Perec, Mathews engineers a funhouse labyrinth in which guise disfigures guise and the logic that reigns is that of representation.

Comic extravaganza that plays mockingly with every device of fiction.

As the novel circles closer to the grand reveal promised by its title, Mathews toys with the reader's 'desire to resolve the irresolute, to conclude the incomplete, to have the crooked made straight.' The result is an undeniably clever parting shot from one of contemporary literature's most playfully challenging writers.

One of the most remarkable prose stylists presently writing in English.

A fascinating, discursive swan song that celebrates the power of stories.--Tyler Malone (03/23/2018)

The Solitary Twin is the perfect endnote for Harry Mathews and a superb point of entry for new readers, encapsulating his lifelong commitment to formal invention while simply being an excellent novel in its own right.--J.W. McCormack

Reseña del editor:

Harry Mathews's brilliant final work, The Solitary Twin, is an engaging mystery that simultaneously considers the art of storytelling. When identical twins arrive at an unnamed fishing port, they become the focus of the residents' attention and gossip. The stories they tell about the young men uncover a dizzying web of connections, revealing passion, sex, and murder. Fates are surprisingly intertwined, and the result is a moving, often hilarious, novel that questions our assumptions about life and literature.

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• Verlag: W W Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1900
• ISBN 10: 0811227545
• ISBN 13: 9780811227544
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1