Name: Twelve Stories
SKU: 4311282
Price: 742.00 TWD
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Author: Guy Davenport
ISBN: 9781887178440

Type

Physical Book

Author

Guy Davenport

Publisher

Catapult

Year

1997

Language

English

Pages

248

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.3x1.9 cm

Weight

0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9781887178440

Synopsis "Twelve Stories "

A collection of stories touches on art, philosophy, and literature, often featuring historical figures and places. Since the publication of Tatlin! in 1974, Guy Davenport has established himself as one of the most original and stimulating writers of fiction today. Twelve Stories draws the best work from Davenports early collections: Tatlin!, Apples and Pears, and The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers. Chosen by the author, these stories are nowhere else in print. Guy Davenports short stories are journeys through history and the imagination. Radically original and surprising, comic and sensuous, Davenports virtuoso talent charms us into a world both familiar and strange. Whether in the timelessness of deep woods or fleeing the bloody dreamscape of battle, Davenports characters embody lifes contradictions.

Guy Davenport

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Guy Davenport (1927-2005) was a translator, poet, critic, illustrator, painter, professor, and American writer. He studied Art at Duke University, where he graduated in Classical and English Literature. He is best known for his modernist style short stories, but his range of works is broad and includes poetry, translation, and criticism. He was an English professor for three decades, having taught at Haverford College and the University of Kentucky. He received translation awards from the PEN Society and the Academy of American Poets. Davenport published more than 40 books, including collections of short stories, translations from Greek, illustrated works, a novel, and critical studies on literature, culture, and art, among them the essays The Geography of the imagination and The Hunter Gracchus, as well as five collections of poems among which are Flowers and Leaves (1966; 1991) and Thasos and Ohio: Poems and Translations, 1950-1980 (1986). He received a MacArthur Fellowship, an O. Henry Award, and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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