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The Case of the Persevering Maltese. Collected Essays.
Harry Mathews
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Paperback. Series: American Literature Series. Num Pages: 290 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
A companion to The Human Country: New and collected Stories, this volume collects all of Harry Mathews's non-fiction, including an astonishing range of essays which discuss everything from complex literary and musical forms to the works of Lewis Carroll, Raymond Roussel, Italo Calvino, Joseph McElroy, George Perec and the OuLiPo. Throughout the collection, Mathews examines the relationship between form and literature in a lucid, intimate voice, arguing with erudition, grace and humour for the importance of artifice.
A companion to The Human Country: New and collected Stories, this volume collects all of Harry Mathews's non-fiction, including an astonishing range of essays which discuss everything from complex literary and musical forms to the works of Lewis Carroll, Raymond Roussel, Italo Calvino, Joseph McElroy, George Perec and the OuLiPo. Throughout the collection, Mathews examines the relationship between form and literature in a lucid, intimate voice, arguing with erudition, grace and humour for the importance of artifice.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
Series
American Literature Series
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564782885
SKU
V9781564782885
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About Harry Mathews
Born in New York in 1930, Harry Mathews settled in Europe in 1952 and has since then lived in Spain, Germany, Italy, and (chiefly) France. When Mathews published his first poems in 1956, he was associated with the so-called New York School of poets, with three of whom (John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler) he founded the review Locus ... Read more
Reviews for The Case of the Persevering Maltese. Collected Essays.
"Harry Mathews is a writer of immense elegance and skill."
New York Review of Books
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