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The Death Of Picasso: New and Selected Writing

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Death Of Picasso: New and Selected Writing
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Guy Davenport
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:384
Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 152
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781593760564
ClassificationsDewey:810
Audience
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Publishing Details

Publisher Counterpoint
Imprint Counterpoint
Publication Date 8 February 2005
Publication Country United States

Description

When Guy Davenport looks at the world, the world changes; sometimes just a little and sometimes a lot. And no reader is the same after reading his or her first Davenport essay or story. He is a writer perfectly described by the term "singular" and in praising his work, from fiction to poetry, from translations to essays, critics all over the world have noted his unique manner, his remarkable erudition and his startling humor. He is the finely realized perfection of high modernism blended with an American sensibility as old as Emerson's. "The way I write about texts and works of art," Davenport has written, "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." For The Death of Picasso, Davenport has gathered twenty-six essays and stories from throughout his career, more than one-third of which have never before appeared in book form. The result is an exciting and invigorating selection, a testament to one of the prose masters at work today.

Author Biography

Guy Davenport was a writer, illustrator, teacher, and scholar. He is best known for his modernist-style short stories, but his range of works is wide, spanning poetry, translation, and criticism. He was a professor of English for three decades, having taught at Haverford College and the University of Kentucky.

Reviews

"Encountering his work one is reminded of how exciting literary modernism can be, how much pleasure it can afford, and how far from moribund are the concerns and methods of Joyce, Pound, and the rest of the modernist gang...And, for those who have yet to discover and jubilate in Davenport's work, this collection superseded earlier anthologies as the most convenient place to start."