Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas
From the writer the Washington Post calls ”the finest prose stylist in America,” a collection of masterly short fiction—his first in over 30 years.
From the writer the Washington Post calls ”the finest prose stylist in America,” a collection of masterly short fiction—his first in over 30 years.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780465026203 (0465026206)
Publish date: January 28th 2000
Publisher: Basic Books
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
I taught this in an advanced undergraduate philosophy course in Postmodernism, and it was a mixed success. The individual sentences that Gass writes are simply awesome, and the complexities of character/author relationships are very interestingly pursued. We read it along with Barthes on authorshi...
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