World Within The Word

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World Within The Word

Author: William H. Gass

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Language: English

Published by: Knopf

Published on: 5th September 2012

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9780307824295


Sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life

In this sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life, one of America's most brilliant and eclectic minds examines literature, culture, writers (their lives and works), and the nature and uses of language and the written word.

Included are discussions of Valéry, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner, suicide, "art and order," and the transformation of language into poetry and fiction.

The vividness and clarity of Gass's writing, the unabashed love and inimitable use of language—his startling metaphors, the sinuousness of his philosophy, the originality of his vision—make each essay a searching revelation of its subject, as well as an example of Gass's own singular artistry.

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