Tea at the Midland: And Other Stories - Couverture souple

Constantine, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1905583494 ISBN 13 : 9781905583492

Editeur : Comma Press, 2012

Synopsis

WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 2010

WINNER OF THE FRANK O'CONNOR INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2013

The characters in David Constantine s fourth collection are often delicately caught in moments of defiance. Disregarding their age, their family, or the prevailing political winds, they show us a way of marking out a space for resistance and taking an honest delight in it. Witness Alphonse having broken out of an old people s home, changed his name, and fled the country now pedalling down the length of the Rhône, despite knowing he has barely six months to live. Or the clergyman who chooses to spend Christmas Eve and the last few hours in his job in a frozen, derelict school, dancing a wild jig with a vagrant called Goat. Key to these characters defiance is the power of fiction, the act of holding real life at arm s length and simply telling a story be it of the future they might claim for themselves, or the imagined lives of others. Like them, Constantine s bewitching, finely-wrought stories give us permission to escape, they allow us to side-step the inexorable traffic of our lives, and beseech us to take possession of the moment.

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À propos de l?auteur

Born in Salford in 1944, David Constantine worked for thirty years as a university teacher of German language and literature. He has published several volumes of poetry, most recently, Nine Fathom Deep (2009). He is a translator of Hölderlin, Brecht, Goethe, Kleist, Michaux and Jaccottet. In 2003 his translation of Hans Magnus Enzensberger s Lighter than Air won the Corneliu M Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation. His translation of Goethe s Faust, Part I was published by Penguin in 2005; Part II in April 2009. He is also author of one novel, Davies, and Fields of Fire: A Life of Sir William Hamilton. His three short story collections are Back at the Spike, the highly acclaimed Under the Dam (Comma, 2005), and The Shieling (Comma, 2009), which was shortlisted for the 2010 Frank O Connor International Short Story Award. Constantine s story Tea at the Midland won the BBC National Short Story Award 2010. He lives in Oxford, and used to edit Modern Poetry in Translation with his wife Helen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Comma Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1905583494
• ISBN 13: 9781905583492
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible