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On Being Blue
A Philosophical Inquiry
Häftad, 2014
129 kr
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On Being Blue is a book about everything blue—sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things—and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do. Gass writes: Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional …
The William H. Gass Reader
Häftad, 1900
242 kr
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“A dazzling compendium of fiction and literary essays…a banquet…joyous…superb.” —Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal. From the author of The Tunnel. This definitive collection brings together the finest fiction and essays of William Gass, one of America’s most celebrated stylists. Spanning his entire …
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
And Other Stories
Häftad, 2014
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151 kr
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First published in 1968, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country established William Gass as one of America’s finest and boldest writers of fiction, and nearly fifty years later, the book still stands as a landmark of contemporary fiction. The two novellas and three short stories it contains are …
I hjärtat av hjärtat av landet
E-bok, 2022
49 kr
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»I hjärtat av hjärtat av landet« är en novell av William H. Gass, först publicerad som titelnovell i en samling 1968. På ytan är det en berättelse om livet i en amerikansk småstad med sin storhetstid bakom sig, full av minnen från tiden när allt var möjligt. Samtidigt kan man utläsa en kommentar om …
Omensetter's Luck
Häftad, 1997
209 kr
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"The most important work of fiction by an American in this literary generation." -The New RepublicNow celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication, Omensetter's Luck is the masterful first novel by the author of The Tunnel, Middle C, On Being Blue, and Eyes: Novellas and Stories.Greeted as a …
Finding a Form
Häftad, 1997
396 kr
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William Gass writes about literary language, about history, about the avant-garde, about minimalism's brief vogue, about the use of the present tense in fiction (Is it due to the lack of both a sense of history and a belief in the future?), about biography as a form, about exile - spiritual and …
Temple of Texts
E-bok, 2010
163 kr
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From one of the most admired essayists and novelists at work today: a new collection of essays—his first since Tests of Time , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. These twenty-five essays speak to the nature and value of writing and to the books that result from a deep …
World Within The Word
E-bok, 2012
112 kr
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In this sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life, one of America''s most brilliant and eclectic minds examines literature, culture, writers (their lives and works), and the nature and uses of language and the written word. Included are discussions of Valéry, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner, …
Life Sentences
Literary Judgments and Accounts
E-bok, 2012
245 kr
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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 …
Middle C
E-bok, 2013
131 kr
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A literary event—the long-awaited novel, almost two decades in work, by the acclaimed author of The Tunnel (“The most beautiful, most complex, most disturbing novel to be published in my lifetime.”—Michael Silverblatt, Los Angeles Times ; “An extraordinary achievement”—Michael Dirda, The Washington …
Cartesian Sonata
And Other Novellas
E-bok, 2013
128 kr
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From the award-winning author of The Tunnel and Finding a Form--four interrelated novellas that explore Mind, Matter, and God. In the first novella, Gass redefines Descartes'' philosophy. God is a writer in a constant state of fumble. Mind is represented by a housewife who is a modern-day …
Reading Rilke
Reflections on the Problems of Translation
E-bok, 2013
240 kr
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The greatly admired essayist, novelist, and philosopher, author of Cartesian Sonata , Finding a Form , and The Tunnel , reflects on the art of translation and on Rainer Maria Rilke''s Duino Elegies -- and gives us his own translation of Rilke''s masterwork. After nearly a lifetime of reading Rilke …
Finding a Form
Essays
E-bok, 2013
245 kr
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From the author of The Tunnel comes a new collection of essays, his first in eight years, on art, writing, nature and culture. This book is by one of the most important and briliant thinkers at work today.
Eyes
Novellas and Stories
E-bok, 2015
115 kr
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A dazzling new collection—two novellas and four short stories from one of the most revered writers of our time, author of seven books of fiction, among them The Tunnel (“An extraordinary achievement”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post ); Middle C (“Exhilaratingly ingenious”—Cynthia Ozick, The New …
William H. Gass Reader
E-bok, 2018
234 kr
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A literary delight--a reading feast; a Gassian celebration--the best of the best: more than fifty selections chosen by Gass himself from his essays, criticism, commentary, short stories, and novels. It begins with his essays, in which Gass looks back at varying points in his writing life at those …
Conversations with William H. Gass
Av William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon
Häftad, 2012
350 kr
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Conversations with William H. Gass captures the imagination and philosophical acumen of one of America's most important aestheticians, critical theorists, fiction writers, and essayists.From his first major novel, Omensetter's Luck (1966), to his numerous collections of essays and philosophical …
Mittellage
E-bok, 2016
255 kr
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Dies ist das herausragende literarische Opus von einem der großen Autoren seiner Generation. Ein grandioser Bildungsroman mit musikalischer Grundierung und das kunstvoll komponierte Porträt eines Angepassten, mit weiten Ausflügen in Politik, Historie, Soziologie, Psychologie und, nicht zuletzt, in …
En el corazón del corazón del país
E-bok, 2021
112 kr
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Después de su publicación en 1968, En el corazón del corazón del país se convirtió en un clásico de la literatura estadounidense y fue reverenciado por autores como David Foster Wallace y Cynthia Ozick. Gass demostró en este libro de relatos que era al mismo tiempo heredero de la prosa de Faulkner …
Sobre lo azul
E-bok, 2021
105 kr
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El cielo, los cuadros de Yves Klein, los jeans, la lengua de la jirafa, la mirada de un escandinavo, la sangre noble, el terciopelo de la película de David Lynch o las venas bajo la piel. Los límites del azul van más allá de lo que nuestros ojos ven, de lo que nuestra imaginación pueda idear. …
Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife
Häftad, 1990
130 kr
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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 parallel should exist between a woman and her lover and a book and its reader. Disappointed by her inattentive husband/reader, Babs engages …
Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife
Häftad, 2014
168 kr
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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 parallel should exist between a woman and her lover and a book and its reader.
