Hell and Back : Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdie

by Parks, Tim

ISBN13:
9781559706100
ISBN10:
1559706104
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 2002-01-07
Publisher: Arcade Pub
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Summary

A brilliant new collection of essays on writers & writing by the man Joseph Brodsky has called "the best British author writing today."

Acknowledgements

Hell and Back

Dante

(22)

The Universal Gentleman

Borges

(22)

Here Comes Salman

Rushdie

(16)

Surviving Giacomo

Leopardi

(20)

The Hunter

Sebald

(14)

Different

Worlds

(20)

Sentimental Education

Seth

115

(16)

A Chorus of Cruelty

Verga

131

(18)

Voltaire's Coconuts

Buruma

149

(18)

Literary Trieste

Saba Svevo, Joyce

167

(12)

Party Going

Green

179

(14)

The Enchanted Fort

Buzzati

193

(8)

In the Locked Ward

Neugeboren

201

(10)

Fascist Work

Sironi

211

(18)

Sightgeist

Saramago

229

(14)

A Prisoner's Dream

Montale

243

(18)

Unlocking the Mind's Manacles

Bateson and Ugazio

261

(24)

Christina Stead: Our Luck

Stead

285

(20)

Writerly Rancour

305

(16)

References

321

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