Under the Shadow - Brossura

Sorrentino, Gilbert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0916583937 ISBN 13: 9780916583934

Casa editrice: Dalkey Archive Pr, 1991

Riassunto

Under the Shadow takes the form of fifty-nine brief sketches with simple nouns as titles. These exquisite vignettes take place on a plane at once surreal, abstract, and ominous, describing a set of people and incidents derived largely from fragments of conversation and gossip gathered here and there. They are reminiscent of Raymond Roussel's characters amid his inimitable ersatz pastorals, with tableaux both innocent and grotesque. There is something ambiguous about these passages, something deliberately closed and dreamlike. Many of them read like primal scenes of private pathologies; others are memories that, many years later, retain their power to haunt.

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L'autore

Gilbert Sorrentino was one of the founders (1956, together with Hubert Selby Jr.) and the editor (1956-1960) of the literary magazineNeon, the editor for Kulchur (1961-1963), and an editor at Grove Press (1965-1970). Selby'sLast Exit to Brooklyn (1964) and The Autobiography of Malcolm X are among his editorial projects. Later he took up positions at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, the University of Scranton and the New School for Social Research in New York and then was a professor of English at Stanford University (1982-1999). The novelists Jeffrey Eugenides and Nicole Krauss were among his students, and his son, Christopher Sorrentino, is the author of the novelsSound on Sound and Trance.

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Book by Sorrentino Gilbert

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• Editore: Dalkey Archive Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0916583937
• ISBN 13: 9780916583934
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 137