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Captures the imagination and philosophical acumen of one of America’s most important aestheticians, critical theorists, fiction writers, and essayists. In interviews, in profiles, and in his own essays, Gass does…
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William H. Gass
Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the aesthetics of the written word. Now, the best and most…
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Piqueras Belen
William Gass afirma a menudo que un aspecto importante de sus motivaciones artisticas responde a su deseo de elaborar obras integras, sistemas semanticos completos y autosuficientes cuyo objetivo ultimo no…
Flann O'Brien
The undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin, drinks too much with his friends and invents stories peopled with hilarious and unlikely characters, one of whom, creates a means…
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John O'Brien
The Review of Contemporary Fiction was founded in 1981 to promote a vision of literary culture that is not limited to the immediately popular, and to ensure that important world…
Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
From the writer the Washington Post calls the finest prose stylist in America, a collection of masterly short fiction–his first in over 30 years.
No one is better than William H. Gass at communicating the sublime and rapturous excitement of reading. Washington Post
From the writer the Washington Post calls the finest prose stylist in America, a collection of masterly short fictionhis first in over 30 years.
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The greatly esteemed essayist, novelist, and philosopher reflects on the art of translation and on rainer maria rilke’s duino elegies-and gives us his own translation of Rilke’s masterwork.
The point where an underground spring suddenly bursts to the surface is known as an eye. It is a place of mystery, where dry ground becomes soaked with life-giving water…
On Being Blue is a book about everything blue-sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things-and about everything else.
The two novellas and three short stories it contains are all set in the Midwest, and together they offer a mythical reimagining of America’s heartland, with its punishing extremes of…
A literary event–the long-awaited novel, almost two decades in work, by one of the most revered American writers, author of the universally acclaimed The Tunnel and Omensetter’s Luck. Gass investigates…
Brackett Omensetter arrives, with his wife, family and belongings in the rural American town of Gilean. It swiftly becomes apparent that he is someone out of the ordinary, as he…
This collection of non-fiction essays by American fiction writer William H. Gass deals with topics including: Ezra Pound as a failed modernist; the lives of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein in relation…
Thirty years in the making, William Gass’s second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. The story…
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Larry McCaffery
McCaffery interprets the works of three major writers of radically experimental fiction: Robert Coover; Donald Barthelme; and Willam H. Gass.
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In this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to advance the conceit that a…
John Gardner
John Gardner’s most poignant novel of improbable love
Stanley Elkin
Sentence for sentence, nobody in America writes better than Stanley Elkin. The New Republic
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Introduction copyright A2021 by Tom McCarthy – Publisher.
