Springer's Progress - Couverture souple

Markson, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1564782182 ISBN 13 : 9781564782182

Editeur : Dalkey Archive Press, 1990

Synopsis

Here comes Lucien Springer. Age: forty-seven. Still handsome though muchly vodka'd novelist, currently abashed by acute creative dysfunction. Sole preoccupation amid these artistic doldrums: pursuit of fair women. Springer is a randy incorrigible who is guided by only one inflexible precept: no protracted affairs. And thus he has slyly sustained eighteen years of marriage.Enter, then, Jessica Cornford. Age: almost half of Lucien's. Lush of body and roguish of mind. Whereupon what begins as bawdy interlude becomes perhaps the most untidy extramarital lech in literature.Rabelaisian yet uncannily wise, both ribald and bittersweet, Springer's Progress is that rarest of gifts, a mature love story. It is an also exuberant linguistic romp, a novel saturated with irrepressible wordplay and outrageous literary thieveries. Contemplating his own work, Lucien Springer modestly restricts his ambition to "a phrase or three worth some lonely pretty girl's midnight underlining." For the discerning reader, David Markson has contrived a hundred of them.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Rabelaisian yet uncannily wise, both ribald and bittersweet, Springer's Progress is that rarest of gifts, a mature love story. It is an also exuberant linguistic romp, a novel saturated with irrepressible wordplay and outrageous literary thieveries. Conte

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Dalkey Archive Press
• Date d'édition: 1990
• ISBN 10: 1564782182
• ISBN 13: 9781564782182
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 234