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Winter Journey
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Description for Winter Journey
Hardcover. A collection of short stories. Translator(s): Lunn, Patricia. Num Pages: 182 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
With this highly original collection of short stories, Catalonian writer Jaume Cabre takes his place among the masters of the form. In "Winter Journey", the reader encounters disparate and often desperate characters - pianist, cuckold, whore, organ builder, rabbi, priest, scholar, thief, hitman, madman, Holocaust survivor, oligarch, failed artist - who challenge notions about will, morality, and the riddle of existence. This is not a selection of individual stories, but a singularly brilliant and enigmatic narrative, novelistic in its approach, with mysterious connections linking characters, objects, and ideas across time and place. The text takes the form of a Schubertian ... Read more
With this highly original collection of short stories, Catalonian writer Jaume Cabre takes his place among the masters of the form. In "Winter Journey", the reader encounters disparate and often desperate characters - pianist, cuckold, whore, organ builder, rabbi, priest, scholar, thief, hitman, madman, Holocaust survivor, oligarch, failed artist - who challenge notions about will, morality, and the riddle of existence. This is not a selection of individual stories, but a singularly brilliant and enigmatic narrative, novelistic in its approach, with mysterious connections linking characters, objects, and ideas across time and place. The text takes the form of a Schubertian ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Swan Isle Press United States
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780974888163
SKU
V9780974888163
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About Unknown
Jaume Cabre is a novelist, essayist, screenwriter, playwright, and philologist. Among his works are the novels La teranyina, Fra Junoy o l'agonia dels sons, Senyoria, L'ombra de l'eunuc, and Les veus del Pamano. Patricia Lunn is professor emerita in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Michigan State University. She is coauthor of the textbook En Otras Palabras and the ... Read more
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