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Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife

Door William H. Gass

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#349420-VF43
Titel	Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife
Auteur	Gass, William H.
Boektype	Paperback
Druk	2e druk
Uitgeverij	Dalkey Archive Press
Jaar van uitgave	1992
ISBN10	0916583465
ISBN13	9780916583460
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, b/w illustrations, unpaged, large 8vo.
Samenvatting	In this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to advance the conceit that a parallel should exist between a woman and her lover and a book and its reader. Disappointed by her inattentive husband/reader, Babs engages in an exuberant display of the physical charms of language to entice an illicit new lover: a man named Gelvin in one sense, but more importantly, the reader of this “essay-novella” which, in the years since its first appearance in 1968 as a supplement to TriQuarterly, has attained the status of a postmodernist classic. Like Laurence Sterne and Lewis Carroll before him, Gass uses a variety of visual devices: photographs, comic-strip balloons, different typefaces, parallel story lines... (Lees verder) (sometimes three or four to the page), even coffee stains. As Larry McCaffery has pointed out, “the lonesome lady of the book's title, who is gradually revealed to be lady language herself, creates an elaborate series of devices which she hopes will draw attention to her slighted charms [and] force the reader to confront what she literally is: a physically exciting literary text.”
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Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 25,00

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