Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Frank, Edwin |
| Publisher: | NYRB Classics |
| Date: | 7/31/2003 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
In this original collection, several of today’s finest writers introduce little-knowntreasures of literature that they count among their favorite books. Here Toni Morrisoncelebrates a great Guinean storyteller whose novel of mystical adventure and surprisingrevelation transforms our image of Africa, while Susan Sontag raises the curtainon a distant summer when three of the greatest poets of the twentieth century exchangedlove letters like no others. Here too John Updike analyzes the rare art of an Englishcomic genius, Jonathan Lethem considers a hard-boiled and heartbreaking story ofprison life, and Michael Cunningham uncovers the secrets of what may well be thefinest short novel in modern American literature. Other contributors include suchnoted authors as Arthur C. Danto, Lydia Davis, Elizabeth Hardwick, Francine Prose,Lucy Sante, Colm Tóibín, Eliot Weinberger, and James Wood.
Lucid, polished, provocative,inspiring, these essays are models of critical appreciation, offering personal, impassioned,thoughtful responses to a wide range of wonderful books. Unknown Masterpieces isa treat for all lovers of great writing and a useful and stimulating guidebook forreaders eager to venture off literature’s beaten tracks.
Eliot Weinberger on HindooHoliday by J.R. Ackerley
Arthur C. Danto on The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré deBalzac
John Updike on Seven Men by Max Beerbohm
Jonathan Lethem on On the Yard byMalcolm Braly
Toni Morrison on The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye
Colm Tóibínon The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
Francine Prose on A High Wind in Jamaica by RichardHughes
Susan Sontag on Letters: Summer 1926 by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetayeva,and Rainer Maria Rilke
Lucy Sante on Classic Crimes by William Roughead
James Woodon The Golovlyov Family by Shchedrin
Elizabeth Hardwick on The Unpossessed by TessSlesinger
Lydia Davis on The Life of Henry Brulard by Stendhal
Michael Cunninghamon The Pilgrim Hawk by Glenway Wescott
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