The Recognitions (Häftad)
avWilliam Gaddis, William H. Gass
ISBN: 9781564786913 - UTGIVEN: 201202The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar ction" and the " rst great cultural critique, which, even if Heller and Pynchon hadn't read it while composing Catch-22 and V., managed to anticipate the spirit of both"--The Recognitions is a masterwork about art and forgery, and the increasi[...]
Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts (Inbunden)
avWilliam H. Gass
ISBN: 9780307595843 - UTGIVEN: 201201A dazzling new collection of essays--on reading, writing, form, and thought--from one of America's master writers.
It begins with the personal, both past and present, emphasizing Gass's lifelong attachment to books, and moves on to the more analytical as he ponders the work of some of his favor[...]
Middle C (Inbunden)
avWilliam H. Gass
ISBN: 9780307701633 - UTGIVEN: 201303A literary event--the long-awaited novel, almost two decades in work, by the acclaimed author of "The Tunnel" ("The most beautiful, most complex, most disturbing novel to be published in my lifetime."--Michael Silverblatt, "Los Angeles Times"; "An extraordinary achievement"--Michael Dirda, "The Wash[...]
Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas (Häftad)
avWilliam H. Gass
ISBN: 9780465026203 - UTGIVEN: 200001In the words of the late Walker Percy, William Gass is a totally committed, totally uncompromising, and extraordinarily gifted writer. His latest work is a suite of four novellas that explore Mind, Matter, and God. In the title story, God is a writer in a constant state of fumble, Mind is a housewi[...]
Middle C (Häftad)
avWilliam H. Gass
ISBN: 9780804168786 - UTGIVEN: 2013-12In a series of brilliant variations, William Gass presents a man's life--futile, comic, anarchic--arranged in an array of vocabularies, altered rhythms, forms, and tones, with music as both theme and structure.
It begins in Graz, Austria, in 1938, when Joseph Skizzen's father pretends to be Jewi[...]
The William H. Gass Reader
ISBN: 9781101874745 - UTGIVEN: 2018-11A literary delight--a reading feast; a Gassian celebration--the best of the best: more than fifty selections chosen by Gass himself from his essays, criticism, commentary, short stories, and novels. It begins with his essays, in which Gass looks back at varying points in his writing life at those wr[...]
The Tunnel (Häftad)
avWilliam H. Gass
ISBN: 9781564782137 - UTGIVEN: 200504Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. The story of a middle aged professor who, upon completion of his massive historical study, Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's German[...]
A Temple of Texts (Pocket)
avWilliam H. Gass
ISBN: 9781564784681 - UTGIVEN: 2007-09Winner of the 2007 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, A Temple of Texts is the latest critical collection from one of America's greatest essayists and novelists. Here, William H. Gass pays homage to the readerly side of the literary experience by turning his critical sensibility upon all t[...]
Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas (Pocket)
avWilliam H. Gass
ISBN: 9781564785022 - UTGIVEN: 200902From the award-winning author of The Tunnel and A Temple of Texts, come four interrelated novellas that explore good and evil, action and thought, redemption and possession. The reader will encounter here a traveling saleseman who gets lost in the kitschy clutter of a small town in Illinois, a young[...]
Life Sentences (Pocket)
avWilliam H. Gass
ISBN: 9781564789174 - UTGIVEN: 2015-01A dazzling new collection of essays--on reading, writing, form, and thought--from one of America's master writers. Beginning with personal, both past and present, it emphasizes William H. Gass's lifelong attachment to books and then moves on to ponder the work of some of his favorite writers (among [...]
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (Häftad)
avWilliam H. Gass
ISBN: 9781590177648 - UTGIVEN: 2014-12First published in 1968, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country established William Gass as one of America's finest and boldest writers of fiction, and nearly fifty years later, the book still stands as a landmark of contemporary fiction. The two novellas and three short stories it contains are al[...]
Tests of Time (Pocket)
avWilliam H. Gass
ISBN: 9781628970388 - UTGIVEN: 2014-07In Tests of Time (2003), Gass shares his thoughts about writing, reading, culture, history, politics, and public opinion, including essays on classic writers and contemporaries, literary "lists" and their use, the extent and cost of political influences on writers, and the First Amendment. First pu[...]
The World Within the Word (Häftad)
avWilliam H. Gass
ISBN: 9781628970395 - UTGIVEN: 2014-07The World Within the Word, Gass's second published volume of criticism, is a landmark collection discussing Valery, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner, suicide, "art and order," and the transformation of language into poetry and fiction. Revelatory and gorgeous, by turns humorous and devastating,[...]
I hjärtat av hjärtat av landet (Inbunden)
avWilliam H. Gass
ISBN: 9789174997682 - UTGIVEN: 2015-04-25
I hjärtat av hjärtat av landet (Häftad)
avWilliam H Gass
ISBN: 9789186488260 - UTGIVEN: 198801Gass, en av USAs mest ansedda författare, har som sitt mål att raffinera prosakonsten. Denna kortroman nagelfar en inskränkt småstad i Indiana. Översättning och efterskrift Claes-Göran Holmberg; illustrationer Jan Kamping.[...]
