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A Table of Green Fields

- Stories
Af: Guy Davenport Engelsk Hardback

A Table of Green Fields

- Stories
Af: Guy Davenport Engelsk Hardback
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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.
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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.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 0
ISBN-13: 9780811212519
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0811212513
Udg. Dato: 7 dec 1993
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 145mm
Højde: 213mm
Forlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Oplagsdato: 7 dec 1993
Forfatter(e): Guy Davenport
Forfatter(e) Guy Davenport


Kategori Litteraturstudier: fra 1900 til 2000


ISBN-13 9780811212519


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 0


Udgave


Længde 20mm


Bredde 145mm


Højde 213mm


Udg. Dato 7 dec 1993


Oplagsdato 7 dec 1993


Forlag New Directions Publishing Corporation

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