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Pricksongs & Descants (eBook)

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In his carnivalesque and riotously inventive Pricksongs & Descants Robert Coover remakes old stories: of Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Beauty (who married her Beast and spends a lifetime suffering his doggy stink). And he reshapes his own: a man makes repeating, re-imagined journeys in an office elevator (while his fellow riders taunt and tempt him), and in the seminal, fractal 'The Babysitter' every moment in a single night is played and replayed, every hope and threat of sex and violence done and undone. Coover's dark, wilfil, comic imagination revels brilliantly in contradictions, a master of chaos.

In his carnivalesque and riotously inventive Pricksongs & Descants Robert Coover remakes old stories: of Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Beauty (who married her Beast and spends a lifetime suffering his doggy stink). And he reshapes his own: a man makes repeating, re-imagined journeys in an office elevator (while his fellow riders taunt and tempt him), and in the seminal, fractal 'The Babysitter' every moment in a single night is played and replayed, every hope and threat of sex and violence done and undone. Coover's dark, wilfil, comic imagination revels brilliantly in contradictions, a master of chaos.

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VerlagPenguin Books Ltd
EinbandAdobe Digital Editions
Erscheinungsjahr2011
Seitenangabe256 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
Masse2'185 KB
PlattformEPUB
ReihePenguin Modern Classics
AutorCoover, Robert

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Über den Autor Robert Coover

Robert Coover (1932-2024) was born in Charles City, Iowa. He attended Indiana University and, after a four-year stint in the US Navy, the University of Chicago. For more than thirty years, he taught literature and creative writing at Brown University. He was the author of many novels and story collections-among others The Origin of the Brunists (forthcoming from NYRB Classics), Pricksongs and Descants, and The Public Burning.Ben Marcus is the author of five books of fiction: Notes from the Fog, The Flame Alphabet, Leaving the Sea, Notable American Women, and The Age of Wire and String. He lives in New York City.

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