The Ravenous Muse: A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Books

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

ISBN 10: 067941861X / ISBN 13: 9780679418610

Verlag: Pantheon Books, 1996

Beschreibung

Signed by the author on a book plate affixed to the front end paper. This is a stated "First Edition"; first printing, as indicated by the print number line on copyright page. Previous owner's signature in pen on front end paper, the only imperfection to an otherwise fine copy. Dust jacket in Fine condition and in protective mylar cover. See photos.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1552762677110

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Ravenous Muse: A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Books
• Verlag: Pantheon Books
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 067941861X
• ISBN-13: 9780679418610
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine
• Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

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Inhaltsangabe

With The Ravenous Muse, Karen Elizabeth Gordon, the author of The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, has created a brilliant and witty collection of writing about food and literature. A highly original and macabre selection - with a strong Slavic/Balkan flavor - it's an often surreal look at the whimsical and even comical realm of the pleasures and displeasures of the table. Sometimes food plays a provocative role - the inspiration for something else or a spur to the process of creativity itself.
In these pieces, everything from olives to toffee is used to evoke emotions, characters, or events. Whether it's Raymond Queneau on the flavors of a Paris bus, Turgenev on cleaning shoes with bread crumbs, Flann O'Brien on voracious bicycles, Julio Cortazar on artichokes and time, a midnight snack with Rossini, George Sand sleepwalking into breakfast, Balzac succumbing to the fatal attraction of his coffeepot, Milorad Pavic on bread, or Dickens describing the strangest dining table man has ever known - or become - the reader will be astonished to see food and its rituals in daring new ways.

Aus dem Klappentext

hor of The Deluxe Transitive Vampire comes this delightful collection of writings about food, drink, and the art of eating. Drawing on excerpts from more than 50 writers--Barthes, Balzac, Mandelstam, McPhee, Marquez, and Joyce among them--Gordon gives us a funny, surprising, and wonderfully macabre book.