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Eugenio de Andrade is the author of twenty-nine volumes of poetry
as well as numerous children's books, collections of prose
writings, and translations into Portuguese of Sappho, Federico
Garcia Lorca, and Yannis Ritsos. Forbidden Words: Selected Poetry
of Eugenio de Andrade, is based on the poet's own retrospective
Antologia Breve ("Brief Anthology") of 1998, expanded and edited
for English-speaking readers by his longtime translator, Alexis
Levitin. Marguerite Yourcenar spoke of "the well-tempered clavier"
of Andrade's poems, Gregory Rabassa of his "succinct
lyricism...summing things up in a moment, much like haiku." His
verse, deeply rooted in the rural landscapes of his childhood and
in the ancient Greek lyric, have the clarity of light on sand,
radiating pagan intimations of immortality.
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And Other Stories (Hardcover)
Georgi Gospodinov; Translated by Alexis Levitin, Magdalena Levy; Edited by Andrew Baruch Wachtel
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R1,456
R1,329
Discovery Miles 13 290
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Stories within stories, a few contemporary fables, a hint of the
narrative complexity of Borges, a whiff of the gritty realism of
pre- and post-communist life in Eastern Europe - these are the
elements that come together in a unique and surprising way in the
wildly imaginative and endlessly engaging short stories of Georgi
Gospodinov. Whether a tongue-in-cheek crime/horror story or the
Christmas story of a pig, a language game leading to an unexpected
epiphany or an inward-looking tale built on the complexity of a
puzzle box, the work in this collection offers a kaleidoscopic
experience of a writer whose style has been described as
""anarchic, experimental"" (""New Yorker"") and ""compulsively
readable"" (""New York Times""). Gospodinov's debut prose work
""Natural Novel"" was hailed as a ""go-for-broke postmodern
construction - a devilish jam of jump-cut narration, pop culture
riffs, wholesale quotation, and Chinese-box authorship"" (""Village
Voice""). At once familiar and fantastic, his writing is high
comedy, high seriousness, and of very high order.
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And Other Stories (Paperback)
Georgi Gospodinov; Translated by Alexis Levitin, Magdalena Levy; Series edited by Andrew Baruch Wachtel
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R496
R470
Discovery Miles 4 700
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Stories within stories, a few contemporary fables, a hint of the
narrative complexity of Borges, a whiff of the gritty realism of
pre- and post-communist life in Eastern Europe - these are the
elements that come together in a unique and surprising way in the
wildly imaginative and endlessly engaging short stories of Georgi
Gospodinov. Whether a tongue-in-cheek crime/horror story or the
Christmas story of a pig, a language game leading to an unexpected
epiphany or an inward-looking tale built on the complexity of a
puzzle box, the work in this collection offers a kaleidoscopic
experience of a writer whose style has been described as
""anarchic, experimental"" (""New Yorker"") and ""compulsively
readable"" (""New York Times""). Gospodinov's debut prose work
""Natural Novel"" was hailed as a ""go-for-broke postmodern
construction - a devilish jam of jump-cut narration, pop culture
riffs, wholesale quotation, and Chinese-box authorship"" (""Village
Voice""). At once familiar and fantastic, his writing is high
comedy, high seriousness, and of very high order.
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