A Table of Green Fields: Ten StoriesNew Directions Publishing, 1993 - 149 σελίδες A Table of Green Fields includes ten stories, variously about the painter Henry Scott Tuke, the mathematician James Joseph Sylvester, Kafka, Thoreau, along with some imaginary Frenchmen and Scandinavians, among others. Calculating the infinite in the finite, tracing geometries of desire, placing the obdurate world in an uncustomary light, each of these stories opens out its own world. Without giving up the plot or character of the traditional short story, Guy Davenport's inventions are complex events in which ideas and cultural history are a kind of music to which the characters dance. Despite the fractal, syncopated collage of his narrative style, Davenport's prose is objective, terse, and transparent. A constant theme in this book is the transmission of the past as an imaginative act; hence the title, Falstaff's dying vision of "a table of green fields," probably a mishearing of his recitation of the Twenty-third Psalm, corrected by editors to "he babbled of green fields," a symbol of all fiction, an art that must be exact about the uncertain. |
Περιεχόμενα
AUGUST BLUE | 1 |
BELINDAS WORLD TOUR | 15 |
GUNNAR AND NIKOLAI | 22 |
AND | 62 |
THE KITCHEN CHAIR | 75 |
MELEAGER | 87 |
MR CHURCHYARD AND THE TROLL | 93 |
O GADJO NIGLO | 103 |
AUTHORS NOTES | 147 |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
afternoon alef angels angles Anne-Marie Ariel arms asked autumn bedroll Belinda Bernard blue boxcar button Churchyard clothes coffee dark Dear Lizaveta door dotted notes dressed ears eyes fingers Florent flowers foreskin Grandmama Greek green grin Gunnar GUY DAVENPORT gypsies hair hand heard Henry Scott Tuke horse Iliad James Joseph Sylvester kiss knees knew Korczak last wagon lavender fields legs light looked Marc Matilda meadow Mencius Mikkel mind morning mouth naked never night Nikolai nose pants Papa peter pipe Plymouth Brother posing pulled ringdove river rock Ross rucksack Samantha shirt shoulders smell smile socks Sollander Søren Kierkegaard Stilt Strøget Stymphalian birds Sven Sven's sweet Sylvester talk Tarpy Tarpy's There's Thesmond things Thoreau toes took tree house troll Tuke turned underpants voice wagon walked watching wood Yeshua Zakkaiah
Αναφορές για αυτό το βιβλίο
Dares to Speak: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Boy-love Joseph Geraci Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 1997 |