Under the Shadow (Revised) (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) - Softcover

Sorrentino, Gilbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0916583937 ISBN 13: 9780916583934

Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Sorrentino Gilbert

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"Under the Shadow" is a rare contemporary work that is wise enough to allow the reader to be a collaborator in the production of meaning rather than a consumer of another's literary mirage.--"San Francisco Chronicle"

A rare specimen of the genre: an intellectual page-turner.--"Publishers Weekly"

Long after you have turned the last page, "Under the Shadow" goes on inhabiting your thoughts and activating your imagination. This is a virtuoso performance by our most original writer. Read it, you'll like it.--"Dallas Morning News"

"Under the Shadow" is a rare contemporary work that is wise enough to allow the reader to be a collaborator in the production of meaning rather than a consumer of another's literary mirage.--"San Francisco Chronicle"

Reseña del editor

Under the Shadow takes the form of fifty-nine brief sketches with simple nouns as titles. These exquisite vignettes take place on a plane at once surreal, abstract, and ominous, describing a set of people and incidents derived largely from fragments of conversation and gossip gathered here and there. They are reminiscent of Raymond Roussel's characters amid his inimitable ersatz pastorals, with tableaux both innocent and grotesque. There is something ambiguous about these passages, something deliberately closed and dreamlike. Many of them read like primal scenes of private pathologies; others are memories that, many years later, retain their power to haunt.

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• Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0916583937
• ISBN 13: 9780916583934
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 142