Landscape with the Fall of Icarus - Couverture souple

Alapi, Zsolt

 
9781927599501: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

Synopsis

A mysterious echo from the past. One mans suicide attempt and his struggle to return among the living. The allegory of a famous Bruegel painting and a poem by W. H. Auden. The redemptive power of art and literature. Set primarily in Montreal, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus traverses the narrators youthful past in Eastern Europe to his arrival as an immigrant to Canada while weaving an intricate literary tapestry blending the pain of exile with the persistent search for meaning and home. Part memoir and part confession, this erotically charged tale explores the quixotic aspects of desire, the nature and origin of suffering, and how compassion and forgiveness lie at the very depth of our humanity.

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À propos de l?auteur

Zsolt Alapi is a short story writer, editor, and critic whose stories, articles, and reviews have appeared widely in Canada, the U.S., Great Britain, and France. Born in Budapest, Hungary, Alapi moved to Montreal, Quebec during the Vietnam War and finished his Ph.D. at McGill University. He taught literature at college and university for three decades and ran a micro-press, Siren Song Publishing, which featured writing from what The Guardian dubbed as 'The New Underground', edgy fiction that follows the path forged by the Beat and post-Beat writers of the latter part of the 20th century.

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