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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 York Times Book Review, "cover); and "Cartesian Sonata "( The finest prose stylist in America "The Washington Post"). It begins with "In Camera," the first of the two novellas, and tells the story, which grows darker and dustier by the speck, of a Mr.Gab (who doesn t have the gift) and his photography shop (in a part of town so drab even…

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 geographical - and he examines the relationship of the writer's life to the writer's work. With dazzling intelligence and wit, Gass sifts through cultural issues of our time and contemplates how written language, whether a sentence or an entire book, is a container of consciousness, the gateway to another's mind that we enter for a while and make our…

From the award-winning author of The Tunnel and A Temple of Texts come four interrelated novellas that explore good and evil, action and thought, redemption and possession. The reader will encounter here a traveling salesman who gets lost in the kitschy clutter of a small town in Illinois, a young woman in rural Iowa who loses touch with the outside world and turns to the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop as anchor, and the coming-of-age story of a devilish young man named Luther (who might as well be called Lucifer). These stories are filled with the familiar style, brilliance, philosophy, and wit that fans of William Gass have come to expect and…

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, 1985 Now a Cornell Paperback-- "These twelve essays take risks, make connections, give off sparks and illustrate Gass's love of language. Using Freudian concepts, he compares the art of writing to the art of becoming civilized: writing parallels the transformation of raw instinct into shared expression. . . . Gass writes with impassioned concern."--Publishers Weekly "[These] essays [are] meant to enliven the form as Montaigne, Emerson, and Woolf enlivened it. This is an ambitious task, but no contemporary American has better credentials than Gass. . . . He announces a topic,…

Tests of Time brings us fourteen witty and elegant essays by novelist and literary critic William H. Gass, "the finest prose stylist in America" (Steven Moore, Washington Post). Whether he's exploring the nature of narrative, the extent and cost of political influences on writers, or the relationships between the stories we tell and the moral judgments we make, Gass is always erudite, entertaining, and enlightening.

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 commitment to the word. Here is Gass on Rilke and Gertrude Stein; on friends such as Stanley Elkin, Robert Coover, and William Gaddis; and on a company of “healthy dissidents,” among them Rabelais, Elias Canetti, John Hawkes, and Gabriel García Márquez. In the title essay, Gass offers an annotated list of the fifty books that have most…

Despu?s de su publicaci?n en 1968, En el coraz?n del coraz?n del pa?s se convirti? en un cl?sico de la literatura estadounidense y fue reverenciado por autores como David Foster Wallace y  Cynthia Ozick. Gass demostr? en este libro de relatos que era al mismo tiempo heredero de la prosa de Faulkner y renovador de la narrativa de su pa?s, al igual que sus contempor?neos William Gaddis, John Barth y Robert Coover. Sus tramas est?n situadas en el Medio Oeste, y hablande violencia, soledad, de una especial relaci?n con la naturaleza y, sobre todo, de la fragilidad del hombre y de las relaciones que este establece con su entorno. Gass…

A finales del siglo XIX, el pueblo de Gilean, en el estado de Ohio, recibe a una familia de forasteros, los Omensetter. Desde el primer momento, sus habitantes admiran la magn?tica personalidad del cabeza de familia, Brackett, y la suerte que siempre parece acompanarlo. Sin embargo, su llegada no es bien acogida por todos. El reverendo Jethro Furber, en pleno proceso de degradaci?n mental y espiritual, centra su odio en Brackett Omensetter. Una muerte acelera el enfrentamiento entre los dos hombres, narrado por medio de distintas voces que son testigos fieles de una brillante disquisici?n sobre la muerte y el sentido de la vida, sobre el…

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 pel?cula de David Lynch o las venas bajo la piel. Los l?mites del azul van m?s all? de lo que nuestros ojos ven, de lo que nuestra imaginaci?n pueda idear. Porque el azul no es tan solo un color, es tambi?n un estado de ?nimo, una forma de ser y la excusa id?nea que encontr? William Gass para reflexionar acerca de los sentidos que atribuimos a las palabras. Sobre lo azul es un ensayo at?pico en el que Gass analiza los matices del azul, no solo como color, sino en tanto palabra, y m?s all? de lo…

Признанный классик американского постмодернизма Уильям Гэсс в течение 26 лет работал над монументальной и личной книгой. Её герой, университетский профессор Уильям Колер, завершивший историческое исследование о Холокосте «Вина и невинность в гитлеровской Германии», обнаруживает, что предисловие, которое он пишет, постепенно разрастается в жуткую исповедь о его собственной жизни. Испугавшись, что эти признания прочитает жена, Колер прячет их между страницами своей книги, одновременно начиная рыть в подвале дома лаз, ведущий в никуда... Текст безжалостно погружает читателя в самые глубокие закоулки человеческой души, раскрываясь как…

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 in an exuberant display of the physical charms of language to entice an illicit new lover: a man named Gelvin in one sense, but more importantly, the reader of this "essay-novella" which, in the years since its first appearance in 1968 as a supplement to TriQuarterly, has attained the status of a postmodernist classic. Like Laurence Sterne and…

Вы полагаете, что "святая троица" современного постмодернизма - Павич, Фаулз и Кундера - стала такой, какой стала, САМА ПО СЕБЕ? Вовсе нет!

Раньше - и гораздо раньше - существовала другая "святая троица", СДЕЛАВШАЯ современный постмодернизм таким, каков он есть теперь. Двух авторов - Барта и Пинчона - российский читатель уже знает. Перед вами - третий. Уильям Гэсс. Абсолютный классик стиля. Абсолютный мастер Слова. Единственный писатель, способный создать нечто, подобное "Картезианской сонате" - сборнику концептуально связанных сюрреалистических новелл-притч, изящно и тонко иллюстрирующих постулаты декартовской философии...

Июньский номер целиком посвящен классику русской и американской литератур ХХ столетия Владимиру Набокову (1899 — 1977) и называется «Сорок лет без Набокова». Предваряет тематический выпуск статья составителя номера — литературоведа, критика, филолога Н. Г. Мельникова (1970) “В одуряюще сложной перспективе памяти…”. В номере читатель найдет: выбранные места из деловой переписки Владимира Набокова в переводе Александра Ливерганта и с комментариями Николая Мельникова - поклоннику Набокова предоставляется возможность вжиться в будни большого писателя. В специальный номер включены также три разных перевода «Баллады Лонгвудской долины», более…

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 range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up. Among the ancient elements, blue occurs everywhere: in ice and water, in the flame as purely as in the flower, overhead and inside caves, covering fruit and oozing out of clay. Although green enlivens the earth and mixes in the ocean, and we find it, copperish, in fire; green air,…

A notable novelist and critic considers the works, lives, preoccupations, and achievements of Valery, Freud, Stein, Sartre, Henry Miller, Joyce, Rilke, Proust, Nabokov, Faulkner, Colette, and other modern writers.

IN THIS SUITE of five short pieces -- one of the unqualified literary masterpieces of the American 1960s -- William Gass finds five beautiful forms in which to explore the signature theme of his fiction: the solitary soul’s poignant, conflicted, and doomed pursuit of love and community. In their obsessions, Gass’s Midwestern dreamers are like the "grotesques" of Sherwood Anderson, but in their hyper-linguistic streams of consciousness, they are the match for Joyce’s Dubliners. First published in 1968, this book begins with a beguiling thirty-three page essay and has five fictions: the celebrated novella "The Pedersen Kid," "Mrs. Mean,"…