Unknown Masterpieces: Writers Rediscover Literature's Hidden Classics - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1590170776 ISBN 13 : 9781590170779

Editeur : NYRB Classics, 2003

Synopsis

In this original collection, several of today's finest writers introduce little-known treasures of literature that they count among their favorite books. Here Toni Morrison celebrates a great Guinean storyteller whose novel of mystical adventure and surprising revelation transforms our image of Africa, while Susan Sontag raises the curtain on a distant summer when three of the greatest poets of the twentieth century exchanged love letters like no others. Here too John Updike analyzes the rare art of an English comic genius, Jonathan Lethem considers a hard-boiled and heartbreaking story of prison life, and Michael Cunningham uncovers the secrets of what may well be the finest short novel in modern American literature. Other contributors include such noted authors as Arthur C. Danto, Lydia Davis, Elizabeth Hardwick, Francine Prose, Lucy Sante, Colm Tóibín, Eliot Weinberger, and James Wood.

 

Lucid, polished, provocative, inspiring, these essays are models of critical appreciation, offering personal, impassioned, thoughtful responses to a wide range of wonderful books. Unknown Masterpieces is a treat for all lovers of great writing and a useful and stimulating guidebook for readers eager to venture off literature's beaten tracks.

 

Eliot Weinberger on Hindoo Holiday by J.R. Ackerley

Arthur C. Danto on The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac

John Updike on Seven Men by Max Beerbohm

Jonathan Lethem on On the Yard by Malcolm Braly

Toni Morrison on The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye

Colm Tóibín on The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

Francine Prose on A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

Susan Sontag on Letters: Summer 1926 by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Rainer Maria Rilke

Lucy Sante on Classic Crimes by William Roughead

James Wood on The Golovlyov Family by Shchedrin

Elizabeth Hardwick on The Unpossessed by Tess Slesinger

Lydia Davis on The Life of Henry Brulard by Stendhal

Michael Cunningham on The Pilgrim Hawk by Glenway Wescott

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Edwin Frank is the Editorial Director of NYRB Classics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: NYRB Classics
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1590170776
• ISBN 13: 9781590170779
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 157
• Éditeur: Frank Edwin
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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