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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sven Birkerts |
| ISBN: | 0688071139 9780688071134 |
| OCLC Number: | 15793685 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | 430 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. German-language fiction: Robert Musil -- Robert Walser -- Joseph Roth -- Max Frisch -- Gregor von Rezzori -- Heinrich Böll -- Thomas Bernhard -- Peter Schneider -- Eva Demski -- pt. 2. Russian writers: Osip Mandelstam -- Osip Mandelstam's Armenian journey -- Joseph Brodsky -- pt. 3. Twentieth-century constellations: Blaise Cendrars -- Marguerite Yourcenar --- Marguerite Duras -- Michel Tournier -- Primo Levi -- Umberto Eco -- Malcolm Lowry -- Lars Gustafsson -- V.S. Naipaul and Derek Walcott -- Yaakov Shabtal -- Salman Rushdie -- Jorge Luis Borges -- Julio Cortázar -- The school of Gordon Lish -- Docu-fiction -- pt. 4. Critics and thinkers: Erich Heller -- Walter Benjamin -- Cyril Connolly -- George Steiner -- Eugenio Montale -- Roger Shattuck -- pt. 5. General essays: Notes from a confession -- Rereading -- The leaning umbrella: a reflection on Flaubert -- Television: the medium in the mass age -- An open invitation to extraterrestrials -- Some notes concerning the impossibility of literary biography. |
| Responsibility: | Sven Birkerts. |
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