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Author : Harry Mathews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium written by Harry Mathews and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry Mathews
Publisher : Carcanet Press
ISBN 13 : 9780856355721
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium written by Harry Mathews and published by Carcanet Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dennis Duncan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198831633
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Oulipo and Modern Thought written by Dennis Duncan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of the Oulipo (Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle), one of the most important groups of experimental writers of the late twentieth century, is still being felt in contemporary literature, criticism, and theory, both in Europe and the US. Founded in 1960 and still active today, this Parisian literary workshop has featured among its members such notable writers as Italo Calvino, Georges Perec, and Raymond Queneau, all sharing in its light-hearted, slightly boozy bonhomie, the convivial antithesis of the fractious, volatile coteries of the early twentieth-century avant-garde. For the last fifty years the Oulipo has undertaken the same simple goal: to investigate the potential of 'constraints' in the production of literature--that is, formal procedures such as anagrams, acrostics, lipograms (texts which exclude a certain letter), and other strange and complex devices. Yet, far from being mere parlour games, these methods have been frequently used as part of a passionate--though sometimes satirical--involvement with the major intellectual currents of the mid-twentieth century. Structuralism, psychoanalysis, Surrealism, analytic philosophy: all come under discussion in the group's meetings, and all find their way in the group's exercises in ways that, while often ironic, are also highly informed. Using meeting minutes, correspondence, and other material from the Oulipo archive at the Bibliotheque nationale de France, The Oulipo and Modern Thought shows how the group have used constrained writing as means of puckish engagement with the debates of their peers, and how, as the broader intellectual landscape altered, so too would the group's conception of what constrained writing can achieve.
Author : Harry Mathews
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564781949
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tlooth written by Harry Mathews and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel begins in a Russian prison camp at a baseball game featuring the defective Baptists versus the Fideists. There is a plot (of sorts), one of revenge surrounding a doctor who, in removing a bone spur from our narrator, manages to amputate a ring and index finger, a significant surgical error considering that the narrator is, or was, a violinist. When Dr. Roak is released from prison, our narrator escapes in order to begin the pursuit, and thus begins a digressive journey from Afghanistan to Venice, then on to India and Morocco and France. All of this takes place amid Mathews's fictional concern and play with games, puzzles, arcana, and stories within stories.
Author : Harry Mathews
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811227553
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Solitary Twin written by Harry Mathews and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Mathews’s last novel is one of his most accessible—and perhaps one of his best 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.
Author : David Bellos
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409019268
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book Georges Perec: A Life in Words written by David Bellos and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's hard to see how anyone is ever going to better this User's Manual to the life of Georges Perec" - Gilbert Adair, Sunday Times Winner of the Prix Goncourt for Biography, 1994 George Perec (1936-82) was one of the most significant European writers of the twentieth century and undoubtedly the most versatile and innovative writer of his generation. David Bellos's comprehensive biography - which also provides the first full survey of Perec's irreverent, polymathic oeuvre - explores the life of an anguished, comical and endearingly modest man, who worked quietly as an archivist in a medical research library. The French son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, he remained haunted all of his life by his father's death in the war, fighting to defend France, and his mother's in Auschwitz-Birkenau. His acclaimed novel A Void (1969) - written without using the letter "e" - has been seen as an attempt to escape from the words "père", "mere", and even "George Perec". His career made an auspicious start with Things: A Story of the Sixties (1965), which won the Prix Renaudot. He then pursued an idiosyncratic and ambitious literary itinerary through the intellectual ferment of Paris in the 1960s and 1970s.He belonged to the Ouvrior de Littérature Potentielle (OuLiPo), a radically inventive group of writers whose members included Raymond Queneau and Italo Calvino. Perec achieved international celebrity with Life A User's Manual (1978), which won the Prix Medicis and was voted Novel of the Decade by the Salon du Livre. He died in his mid-forties after a short illness, leaving a truly puzzling detective novel, 53 Days, incomplete. "Professor Bellos's book enables us at once to relish the most wilfully bizarre aspects of Perec's oeuvre and to understand the whys and wherefores of his protean nature" - Jonathan Romney, Literary Review
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Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book Review of Contemporary Fiction written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terence Diggory
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438119054
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets written by Terence Diggory and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An A-to-Z reference to writers of the New York School, including John Ashbery, who is often considered America's greatest living poet. Examines significant movements in literary history and its development through the years.
Author : Harry Mathews
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628974796
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cigarettes written by Harry Mathews and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s, from New York City to Upper New York State. Though nothing is as simple as it might appear to be, we could describe this as a story about Allen, who is married to Maud but having an affair with Elizabeth, who lives with Maud. Or say it is a story about fraud in the art world, horse racing, and sexual intrigues. Or, as one critic did, compare it to a Jane Austen creation, or to an Aldous Huxley novel—and be right and wrong on both counts. What one can emphatically say is that Cigarettes is a brilliant display of Harry Mathews's ingenuity and deadly playfulness.
Author : Harry Mathews
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564781666
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Conversions written by Harry Mathews and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a dinner party hosted by a wealthy New Yorker, a guest receives a gold adze, the coveted prize in a worm race. When the man dies the next day, he bequeaths, according to a stipulation in his will, the bulk of his fortune to the adze's possessor, provided he answer three mysterious questions relating to the artifact's history. In his search the owner encounters a menagerie of eccentric personalities: an ancient revolutionary in a Parisian prison, a ludicrous pair of gibberish-speaking brothers, and customs officials who spend their time reading contraband materials. He soon finds himself immersed in the centuries-long history of a persecuted religious sect and in an odyssey that begins in a forgotten fog-covered town in Scotland and ends on the ocean floor off the cost of an uncharted French island. A wild goose chase through a remarkably unusual world, The Conversions invites both reader and protagonist to participate in a quest for answers to an elusive game.
