Author: Aidan Higgins
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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During the five years of their adulterous affair, Finn Fitzgerald and Elin Marstrander spend only 47 days and nights together. At each of their meetings--in Spain or London, or on the tiny island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, which serves as their last refuge--they try to conjure a reality that will correspond to that of the passionate letters they exchange while apart. Elin, a Danish poet, and Fitz, an Irish novelist, send each other beautiful, loving words, as well as evocative jabs of cruelty, often in the same letter. In the whirling world of their writing they attempt to enjoy their love in the calm they can't find in their daily lives. But as reality--their lovers and their children; their failures and regrets--creeps in, their relationship inevitably crumbles: "The dream ends."
Author: Aidan Higgins
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Languages : en
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Author: Aidan Higgins
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ISBN: 9780349116839
Category : Adultery
Languages : en
Pages : 175
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Chopin's funeral, bisecting the 19th century, stands as a turning point, with both his life and music playing out at the crossroads. His decline and death, following a series of catastrophes and on the brink of a new style, were final chapters in an often tragic life, but also reflected larger historical forces. the end of a world that fostered his particular genius; the wounds of exile; and most fatally, the loss of love. An intimate close- up of the composer's last years, it is also the story of the artist as hero. At the close of his life, with no home or money, his physical powers failing, Chopin grappled with nothing less than a new musical form.
Author: Joseph McElroy
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564786021
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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New stories from a master of American fiction.
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784544
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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A scathing, razor-sharp satire set on a New Orleans-bound riverboat, The Confidence-Man exposes the fraudulent optimism of so many American idols and idealists--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and P. T. Barnum, in particular--and draws a dark vision of a country being swallowed by its illusions of progress.Why is Dalkey Archive doing yet another edition of The Confidence-Man? And why is it doing Melville at all? First, this edition, originally published by Bobbs-Merrill over forty years ago, contains remarkable annotations by H. Bruce Franklin, intended for both the general reader and the scholar. It's an edition we have long admired. More importantly, we believe that The Confidence-Man is America's first postmodern novel--game-like, darkly comic, and completely inventive.
Author: Stefan Themerson
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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When an unknown black poodle inexplicably explodes in philosophy professor Timothy Chesterton-Brown's back yard--paralyzing the professor and killing his guest--the "mystery of the sardine" begins. Its solution will involve such unwitting detectives as a twelve-year-old mathematician, his mother, his beloved, a palmist named Miss Prentice, and a bureaucrat dubbed the Minister of Imponderabilia. The clues they unearth--drawing on logic, the occult, intuition, and everything in between--lead them far away from the tiny seaside town where they begin. We follow them to Majorca, Rome, Warsaw, and London, but in the end, the solution lies beyond even the furthest and most magical reaches of reason.
Author: Christine Montalbetti
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564785289
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Setting out to tell the story of a mysterious cowboy--a stranger in town with a terrible secret--Christine Montalbetti is continually sidetracked by the details that occur to her along the way, her CinemaScope camera focusing not on the gunslinger's grim and determined eyes, but on the insects crawling in the dust by his boots. A collection of the moments usually discarded in order to tell even the simplest and most familiar story, "Western" presents us with the world behind the clich's, where the much-anticipated violence of the plot is continually, maddeningly delayed, and no moment is too insignificant not to be valued. Montalbetti's daring theft of movie technique and subversion of a genre where women are usually relegated to secondary roles--victims, prostitutes, widows, schoolmarms--makes Western a remarkable wake for the most basic of American mythologies.
Author: Richard Kearney
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815631262
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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This collection contains writings on Irish politics, literature, drama, and visual arts, along with a series of dialogues with important cultural and intellectual figures. Previously unpublished pieces include essays on Joyce and on the Irish Hunger Memorial in New York City and a dialogue with Georges Dumézil on myth.
Author: René Belletto
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564785939
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
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In this darkly playful novel, polymath ReneÌ Belletto tells two complimentary stories: In one, a man finds himself paying a ransom demanded by the kidnappers of a woman he’s never actually met; in the other, a second man makes plans to fake his own death to escape a woman whose devotion has begun to terrify him. Fast, funny, and sarcastic, partaking of the same vocabularies, imagery, and pitch-black sense of humor, these two variations on a single theme form a novel as much at home in the surreal as in everyday reality. from Dying: “One evening, shortly before my departure (just hours before my departure, truth be told: I only set aside my quill to make my escape), I resolved to put the story of my sojourn at the Rats and Vermin Hotel down in writing. Alas, I didn’t succeed. I learned that I wasn’t master of my own hand. It was stronger than I, yes stronger than I . . .”
Author: Eric Laurrent
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564784312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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At age 40, Clovis Baccara is a successful Parisian financial wheeler-dealer and lothario love struck by the sight of his longtime business partner's young intended, Veronica. Oscar, the would-be groom, has gotten increasingly paranoid about their life of white-collar crime, and the marriage marks his resolve to get out of the business and start a family. That plan goes awry when the police apprehend Oscar on his wedding day.
