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The Hunter Gracchus And Other Papers on Literature and Art
by [Davenport, Guy]
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Hardly the typical essay collection, The Hunter Gracchus is better described as a collage of ideas, commentary, and criticism from an eclectic stylist whose sentences ring with clarity and originality. Moving effortlessly from snake handling to Wallace Stevens, these essays take delight in an immense range of topics, including art and architecture, religion, and literature. In one essay, Davenport recalls a lunch with Thomas Merton at the Ramada Inn, where Merton, already the world's most famous Trappist monk, drank several martinis and held forth on the architecture of Buddhist temples. In another, Davenport finds in postwar modernism a catalogue of our lost innocence. In the stunning title essay, he maps out the world of a posthumously published story by Franz Kafka.
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- Counterpoint Brand
- Sep 1, 1997 Pub Date:
- 9781887178556 ISBN-13:
- 1887178554 ISBN-10:
- 352.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 8.5 in * 0.8 in * 5.5 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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