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Travesty

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#349446-VF44
Titel	Travesty
Auteur	Hawkes, John
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Jaar van uitgave	1976
ISBN10	0811205975
ISBN13	9780811205979
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original half cloth, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting	An exceptionally brilliant novel from “our most interesting writer” (Flannery O'Connor) Travesty is John Hawkes's most extreme vision of eroticism and comic terror. In the south of France, an elegant sports car is speeding through the night, bearing a man, his daughter, and his best friend toward a fatal crash. As he drives, the “privileged man” justifies, in a sustained monologue, his firm opinion that willed destruction is the ultimate act of the poetic imagination. “What I have in mind is an 'accident' so perfectly contrived that it will be unique, spectacular and instantaneous, a physical counterpart to that vision in which it was in fact conceived.” Concerned with sex, myth, the imagination, and the absurd, Travesty is one of the most cruelly and... (Lees verder) vibrantly ironic works to be found in twentieth-century literature.
Pagina's	128
Conditie	Goed — Edges dust jacket slightly browned.
Prijs	€ 10,00

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