Cartesian Sonata: And Other Novellas - Rilegato

Gass, William H.

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ISBN 10: 0375401687 ISBN 13: 9780375401688

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998

Riassunto

In four interconnected novellas--"Cartesian Sonata," "Bed and Breakfast," "Emma Enters a Line of Elizabeth Bishop's," and "The Master of Secret Revenges"--the author of The Tunnel explores the themes of mind, matter, and God and the conflict between good and evil. 15,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

William Gass is the author of four novels and five books of essays. He has been the recipient of grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has won four Pushcart Prizes and has appeared four times in the Martha Foley annual collection Best American Short Stories. He has received two awards from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and two National Book Critics Circle Awards for Criticism. He lives in St. Louis, where he is the Director of the International Writers Center.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

rd-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 Cassandra. And Matter is, what (and who) else but the helpless and confused husband of Mind. In the novella that follows, the concept of salvation is explored through material possessions--a collection of kitsch--as a traveling businessman is slowly lost in the sheer surfeit of matter in a small Illinois town. In another, Gass explores the mind's ability to escape. A young woman growing up in ruralIowa finds herself losing touch with the physical world as she loses herself in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. And in "The Master of Secret Revenges," God appears in the form of Descartes' evil demon, Lucifer, as Gass chronicles the life of a young man named Luther and his development from his devilish youth to his demonic ad

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375401687
• ISBN 13: 9780375401688
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 274