Adventures in Unhistory: Conjectures on the Factual Foundations of Several Ancient Legends

Davidson, Avram

ISBN 10: 076530760X / ISBN 13: 9780765307606

Edité par Tor Books, 2006

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Synopsis :

"Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, nobody knows what a wombat looks like and everyone knows what a dragon looks like." Not a novel, not a book of short stories, "Adventures in Unhistory" is a book of the fantastic - a compendium of magisterial examinations of mermaids, mandrakes, and mammoths; dragons, werewolves, and unicorns; the phoenix and the roc; about places such as Sicily, Siberia, and the moon; about heroic, sinister, and legendary persons such as Sindbad, and Aleister Crowley, and Prester John; and - revealed at last - the secret of Hyperborea. The facts are here, the foundations behind rumours, legends, and the imaginations of generations of talespinners. But, far from being dry recitals, these meditations, or lectures, or deadpan prose performances are as lively, as crazily inventive, as witty as the best fiction of the author, a writer praised by Gardner Dozois as "one of the great short story writers of our times." Who, on the subject of Dragons, could write coldly, dispassionately, guided only by logic? Certainly not Avram Davidson. Certain facts, these facts, deserve more than recitation; they deserve flourish, verve, gusto, style - the late, great Avram Davidson's unique voice. That prose which, in the words of Peter S. Beagle's preface to this volume, "cries out to be read aloud."

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Adventures in Unhistory: Conjectures on the ...
Éditeur : Tor Books
Date d'édition : 2006
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : very_good