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The Hunter Gracchus - And Other Papers on Literature and Art (Paperback)
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The Hunter Gracchus - And Other Papers on Literature and Art (Paperback)
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Open the pages of The Hunter Gracchus and step into the remarkable
mind of Guy Davenport, one of this countrys most provocative
writers. Moving effortlessly from snake handling to Wallace
Stevens, these essays take delight in an immense range of topics,
including art and architecture, religion, and literature. Open the
pages of The Hunter Gracchus and step into the remarkable mind of
Guy Davenport, one of this countrys most brilliant and provocative
writers. Hardly the typical essay collection, The Hunter Gracchus
is better described as a collage of ideas, commentary, and
criticism from an eclectic stylist whose sentences ring with
clarity and originality.Moving effortlessly from snake handling to
Wallace Stevens, these essays take delight in an immense range of
topics, including art and architecture, religion and
literature--all approached from Davenports deeply personal point of
view. In one essay, Davenport recalls a lunch with Thomas Merton at
the Ramada Inn, where Merton, already the worlds most famous
Trappist monk, drank several martinis and held forth on the
architecture of Buddhist temples. In another, Davenport finds in
postwar modernism a catalogue of our lost innocence. In the
stunning title essay, he maps out the world of a posthumously
published story by Franz Kafka.Davenport has the singular and
joyous ability to read into human artifacts--Picassos Guernica , a
pattern of bricks, a Shaker design for easy-to-clean revolving
windows. His kinetic prose unfolds surprising connections of
influence, transporting readers from the world of the intellectual
to the world of the extraordinary.The way I write about texts and
works of art, Davenport says in his introductory note, has been
shaped by forty years of explaining them to students in a
classroom. I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for
people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.
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