The Unstrung Harp: Or Mr Earbrass Writes a Novel - Rilegato

Gorey, Edward

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ISBN 10: 0151004358 ISBN 13: 9780151004355

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999

Riassunto

Originally published in 1953, this long out-of-print volume explores the nature of the literary life and its isolation, writer's block, boredom, and anguish, in the story of Mr. Earbrass, who, on November 18th of alternate years, begins writing his new novel. 50,000 first printing.

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Praise for Edward Gorey
“A master of a genre of graphic storytelling [and] a brilliant draftsman."-The New York Times Book Review “Edward Gorey's work is remarkable and mysterious. I find it fascinating."-Max Ernst

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On November 18th of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his new novel.' Weeks ago he chose its title at random from a list of them he keeps in a little green note-book. It being tea-time of the 17th, he is alarmed not to have thought of a plot to which The Unstrung Harp might apply, but his mind will keep reverting to the last biscuit on the plate." So begins what the Times Literary Supplement called "a small masterpiece." TUH is a look at the literary life and its "attendant woes: isolation, writer's block, professional jealousy, and plain boredom." But, as with all of Edward Gorey's books, TUH is also about life in general, with its anguish, turnips, conjunctions, illness, defeat, string, parties, no parties, urns, desuetude, disaffection, claws, loss, trebizond, napkins, shame, stones, distance, fever, antipodes, mush, glaciers, incoherence, labels, miasma, amputation, tides, deceit, mourning, elsewards. You get the point. Finally, TUH is about Edward Gorey the writer, about Edward Gorey writing The Unstrung Harp. It's a cracked mirror of a book, and it's dedicated to RDP or Real Dear Person.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0151004358
• ISBN 13: 9780151004355
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 64