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Letter from Casablanca Paperback Antonio Tabucchi
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Name
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- ISBN
- 9780811209861
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811209865
ISBN-13
9780811209861
eBay Product ID (ePID)
173916
Product Key Features
Book Title
Letter from Casablanca
Number of Pages
132 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary
Publication Year
1986
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
85-028380
Dewey Edition
19
Dewey Decimal
853/.914
Synopsis
Almost like a detective, the reader must try to puzzle out what has happened, what relationship X "really" has to Y. In "Dolores Ibarruri Sheds Bitter Tears," is the mother's report of her son's happy childhood just a remembered mirage? Is life inside a Fitzgerald novel a game invented by the narrator of "The Little Gatsby," or has the game indeed replaced any other reality? From the title story "Letter from Casablanca," with its double and triple inversions of our expectations, to the final thoughts of "The Backwards Game," where the author plays with the idea of reversing life and literature, the haunting theme of this remarkable and rewarding debut is: "Reality is unpleasant and you prefer dreams"--but modified in teasing counterpoint by the observation that "sometimes reality surpasses the imagination." The author implies that many of the stories are "true," but it is the reflecting and refining power of art and language which focuses seemingly random events into patterns of inevitability., Almost like a detective, the reader must try to puzzle out what has happened, what relationship X really has to Y. In Dolores Ibarruri Sheds Bitter Tears, is the mother's report of her son's happy childhood just a remembered mirage? Is life inside a Fitzgerald novel a game invented by the narrator of The Little Gatsby, or has the game indeed replaced any other reality? From the title story Letter from Casablanca, with its double and triple inversions of our expectations, to the final thoughts of The Backwards Game, where the author plays with the idea of reversing life and literature, the haunting theme of this remarkable and rewarding debut is: Reality is unpleasant and you prefer dreams--but modified in teasing counterpoint by the observation that sometimes reality surpasses the imagination. The author implies that many of the stories are true, but it is the reflecting and refining power of art and language which focuses seemingly random events into patterns of inevitability., The eight stories contained in Antonio Tabucchi's Letters from Casablanca introduce to an American audience a rising Italian writer (born 1943) whose intriguing narrative strategies make the reader an active participant in his work. Each story can be seen from at least two perspectives, and each protagonist can be seen as experiencing an objective "reality" or having his own imagined and quite possibly distorted view of events., Each story can be seen from at least two perspectives, and each protagonist can be seen as experiencing an objective 'reality' or having his own imagined and quite possibly distorted view of events.
LC Classification Number
PQ4880.A24G5613 1986
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