This Is Our Writing - Brossura

Rigelhof, T. F.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0889842183 ISBN 13: 9780889842182

Casa editrice: Porcupines Quill, 2000

Riassunto

Punctuate his title as you like but T.F. Rigelhof considers This is Our Writing a declaration, an enquiry and an exclamation. As a writer of half a dozen, a reviewer of dozens upon dozens, and as a reader of a multitude more books, Terry Rigelhof knows much about writing in Canada.

In these eleven essays, he asks what is best in what has been written by Canadians in the twentieth century. He examines selected works of some writers whose accomplishments need serious revaluation. What are the real achievements of Robertson Davies, Carole Corbeil, Mavis Gallant, Mordecai Richler, Hugh Hood, Leonard Cohen and George Grant? Rigelhof comes up with a list that will surprise some and dismay others.

This is a book for readers who have always known in their heart of hearts that Robertson Davies was an egregious windbag and that underneath the inspired silliness of their carefully contrived and managed public images, Mordecai Richler and Leonard Cohen have produced three of the most intelligent novels we have. In a sequence of interlocking personal essays, Rigelhof explores living a writerly life in Canada at the end of the twentieth century. The text is fortified by a dozen photographs, all but one previously unpublished, by Gabor Szilasi, one of Canada's greatest active documentary photographers.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Porcupines Quill
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0889842183
• ISBN 13: 9780889842182
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 211
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile