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The World Within The Word Essays

By William H. Gass

Book information

Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN
0-465-02625-7, 9780465026258
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
46 MB (47843243 bytes)
Edition
New edition
Pages
352\352
Time added
2015-04-28 16:00:00

Description

In this sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life, one of America's most brilliant and eclectic minds examines literature, culture, writers (their lives and works), and the nature and uses of language and the written word. Included are discussions of Valéry, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner, suicide, "art and order," and the transformation of language into poetry and fiction. The vividness and clarity of Gass's writing, the unabashed love and inimitable use of language-his startling metaphors, the sinuousness of his philosophy, the originality of his vision-make each essay a searching revelation of its subject, as well as an example of Gass's own singular artistry.

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