Writers (häftad, eng)

This new edition of Writers includes five new scenes featuring Georges Simenon and Andre Gid©, Flannery O''Connor and William S. Burroughs, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Pauline Garcia-Viardot, Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawrence, and Willa Cather and Gypsy Rose Lee.

In prose that is funny, grotesque, and a touch brutal, Gifford shows these writers at their most human, which is to say at their worst: they are liars, frauds, lousy lovers, and drunks. This is a world in which Ernest Hemingway drunkenly sets explosive trip wires outside his home in Cuba, Marcel Proust implores the angel of death as a delirious Arthur Rimbaud lies dying in a hospital bed, and Albert Camus converses with a young prostitute while staring at himself in the mirror of a New York City hotel room.

In Gifford''s house of mirrors, we are offered a unique perspective on this group of literary greats. We see their obsessions loom large, and none more than a shared needling preoccupation with mortality. And yet these stories, which are meant to be performed as plays, are also tender and thoughtful exercises in empathy.

Gifford asks: What does it mean to devote oneself entirely to art? And as an artist, what defines success and failure?

Format	Häftad
Omfång	192 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Utgivningsdatum	2023-05-02
ISBN	9781644212868