A dazzling new collection of essays-on reading, writing, form, and thought-from one of America's master writers. It begins with the personal, both past and present. It emphasizes Gass's lifelong attachment to books and moves on to the more analytical, as he ponders the work of some of his favorite writers (among them Kafka, Nietzsche, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Proust). He writes about a few topics equally burning but less loved (the Nobel Prize-winner and Nazi sympathizer Knut Hamsun; the Holocaust). Finally, Gass ponders theoretical matters connected with literature: form and metaphor, and specifically, one of its genetic parts-the sentence. Gass embraces the avant-garde but applies a classic standard of writing to all literature, which is clear in these essays, or, as he describes them, literary judgments and accounts. Life Sentences is William Gass at his Gassian best.
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Autorentext
William H. Gass-essayist, novelist, literary critic-was born in Fargo, North Dakota. He is the author of seven works of fiction and nine books of essays, including Life Sentences, A Temple of Texts, and Tests of Time, and was a professor of philosophy at Washington University. He died in 2017.
Titel
Life Sentences
Untertitel
Literary Judgments and Accounts
Autor
EAN
9780307957443
ISBN
978-0-307-95744-3
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
17.01.2012
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
2.81 MB
Anzahl Seiten
368
Jahr
2012
Untertitel
Englisch
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