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The Death of Picasso: New and Selected Writing
Contributor(s): Davenport, Guy (Author)

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 ISBN: 1593760566     ISBN-13: 9781593760564
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2005
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Annotation: The Death of Picasso is a collection of 27 essays and stories written and compiled by the award-winning eclectic, provocative, and masterful writer, Guy Davenport. This is a stunning and readable selection of the pieces he feels best represent his career. The result is exciting and invigorating, truly a testament to one of the finest prose masters at work today.
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Literary Collections | American - General
- Literary Criticism | American - General
Dewey: 810
Physical Information: 1.01" H x 5.74" W x 8.86" L (1.08 lbs) 384 pages
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When Guy Davenport looks at the world, the world changes; sometimes just a little and sometimes a lot. And no reader is the same after reading his or her first Davenport essay or story. He is a writer perfectly described by the term singular and in praising his work, from fiction to poetry, from translations to essays, critics all over the world have noted his unique manner, his remarkable erudition and his startling humor. He is the finely realized perfection of high modernism blended with an American sensibility as old as Emerson's.


The way I write about texts and works of art, Davenport has written, has been shaped by forty years of explaining them to students in a classroom. I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.


For The Death of Picasso, Davenport has gathered twenty-six essays and stories from throughout his career, more than one-third of which have never before appeared in book form. The result is an exciting and invigorating selection, a testament to one of the prose masters at work today.
 
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