The Pegnitz Junction

Author : Mavis Gallant
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497685109
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pegnitz Junction written by Mavis Gallant and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A devastating collection exploring the wake of mankind’s greatest conflict World War II exerted a psychic toll on Europe that is still evident today. The Pegnitz Junction is Mavis Gallant’s look at how Europe handles that collective pain. In the title novella of this sharply written collection, a girl rides the train with her boyfriend and his son in postwar Europe. Onboard, she encounters all manner of personalities, each person burdened by the weight of what he or she has just experienced, openly bleeding from the emotional wounds of a terrifying global conflict. A wife must come to terms with her husband’s mistakes and find reconciliation in herself as she meets the refugee he had an affair with. A soldier must reintegrate himself into civilian life, no matter how difficult it is. An unlikely friendship between an actress and a police commissioner begins to form. No matter where or when Gallant’s stories are set, each one is a small enchantment, anchored by the insights of a master of her craft.

Author : Mavis Gallant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pegnitz Junction written by Mavis Gallant and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kristjana Gunnars
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042016835
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transient Questions written by Kristjana Gunnars and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mavis Gallant has been a leading literary figure in Canada since her first short story, published in 1951, and has grown to be considered internationally as a modern master of the genre. Her writing is nuanced, sensitive, gifted, deep and concise. She leaves everything open for the hidden potential that can always be discovered. Times change; society, history, politics may develop out of recognition. Cultures metamorphose. Literary landscapes and theories are renewed. But the classics of our time stay where they are, pillars of that which is solidly about us. Mavis Gallant's work is of that calibre: her writing will remain interesting and relevant no matter what else happens. This book is an exploration of what Gallant's readers are thinking now: where they place her in the panorama of literature and what meaning she has for them now. Scholars continue to probe into the stories, their characters, the capsules of history they present, and continue to find them challenging. As with Shakespeare, no amount of scrutiny will yield the final answer. That is how complex Gallant's writing is. Especially now, when the positioning of her characters is a more prominent condition in general, we need to review Gallant's artistic insights. As Francine Prose says in Harper's Magazine: Gallant's cast of characters are a "motley assortment of refugees, fugitives, and travelers" and "displaced persons scrambling on the margins of a society they will never belong to." This is the modern condition. As with other great writers, Gallant shows herself to be prophetic in cutting down to the roots of the sensibility of our era. We are reading her work, and we are thinking about it and talking about it. This book is part of that large conversation. Contributors are: Neil Besner, Di Brandt, Nicole Côté, John Lent, Gerald Lynch, Maria Noëlle Ng, Peter Stevens, Simone Vauthier, Per Winther.

Author : Dutton, Marise
Publisher : Vancouver, B.C. : Crane Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pegnitz Junction [sound Recording] : a Novella and Five Short Stories written by Dutton, Marise and published by Vancouver, B.C. : Crane Library. This book was released on 1982 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mavis Gallant
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551996332
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pegnitz Junction written by Mavis Gallant and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these dazzling stories, Mavis Gallant immerses us in the lives of ordinary people swept up in the upheaval and displacement that followed in the wake of the Second World War. A bitter yet stubbornly pragmatic woman prepares for what promises to be another disastrous Christmas with her mother, her aunt, and her would-be-war-hero uncle. Engaged to another man, a woman travels to Paris with her older lover and his young son. A wife recollects her complicated relationship with the refugee woman who had a brief affair with her husband. Small mercies form the backbone of a friendship between an actress and a police commissioner. A career soldier, now discharged and stranded in France, makes his first adjustments to life as a civilian. In elegant, diamond-sharp prose, Gallant distills the vanities, absurdities, and contradictions that lie at the heart of human behavior and fashions stories of rare power and insight.

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Publisher : Editions Publibook
ISBN 13 : 274838444X
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mavis Gallant on Her Work written by and published by Editions Publibook. This book was released on with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pilar Alonso
Publisher : Universidad de Salamanca
ISBN 13 : 9788478007905
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspects of discourse analysis written by Pilar Alonso and published by Universidad de Salamanca. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen Elizabeth Smythe
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773509399
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Figuring Grief written by Karen Elizabeth Smythe and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karen Smythe's theoretical study is concerned largely with the works of two of the best short story writers in the English language Mavis Gallant and Alice Munro. Although Gallant and Munro have received increasing attention in recent years, most critics have taken a general approach to their works, usually discussing the themes of memory and loss. In contrast, Smythe focuses specifically on the importance of elegy in these fictions and on the role the reader plays in reading them.

Author : Lesley Diana Clement
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773520414
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning to Look written by Lesley Diana Clement and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Learning to Look Lesley Clement traces the evolution of Mavis Gallant's visually evocative style through five decades of her short fictional works. Gallant explores the boundaries between visible and invisible worlds as the lines, shapes, and colours suggested by her allusions, analogies, and structures challenge us as readers.

Author : Esther Harriott
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786434392
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writers and Age written by Esther Harriott and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1900, the average life expectancy in the developed world has almost doubled, from 45 to 80. "We are almost a new species," declared the English writer V.S. Pritchett, while pointing out that this means "most of us have to face the prospect of a long old age before we die." Pritchett is one of five great writers--along with Stanley Kunitz, Doris Lessing, Mavis Gallant and Russell Baker--whose novels, short stories, poems and essays about old age, written in old age, are examined in this book. Born between 1900 (Pritchett) and 1925 (Baker), these writers are members of the first generation of the 20th century, and of the first generation of writers able to write about old age from experience. In their later works we read about growing old as reported by the old, not as imagined by the young and middle-aged. They wrote about old age not as a discrete stage of life, but as a continuation--another context in which to pursue the themes of their earlier poems, novels, stories and essays. And those who had written about love--a central theme of fiction and poetry--now wrote about love in old age.