books by William H. Gass     books:       A Temple of Texts1 review William H. Gass Dalkey Archive Pr, 2007 Twice-removed tales: mandarin lit crit in the high style This collects introductions to new editions of literary works, musings on books and ideas, and a variety of book reviews, some brief, some-- as with that of Susan Neiman's philosophical study of evil, extended. The high style Gass favors, and which the Washington Post's Michael Dirnda pours/pores over, does demand concentration. It will reward effort, but the amounts of inspiration that I gained ...             Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas3 reviews William H. Gass Dalkey Archive Pr, 2009 Stunning realization of the Cartesian halves. A stunning realization of the Cartesian halves: the mind (on the one side); the flesh (on the other). All of the Gassian exploration of the marrow of language, metaphor and the life of lyricism is here. But so is his visceral presentation of the flesh, bones and fragile surfaces of the body of one Ella Bend. With the halves (thinking; therefore, being) folding and unfolding into and away from ...             Vanishing America: The End of Main Street Diners, Drive-Ins, Donut Shops, and Other Everyday Monuments5 reviews Michael Eastman, William H. Gass Rizzoli, 2008 Catch 'em while you can The subtitle to this fascinating book is The End of Main Street and Michael Eastman has taken it upon himself to record as much of it as possible before progress or neglect flattens what's left. Flick through the pages and you'll see more than two hundred shots of small town commonplace. The five chapters (Theaters, Churches, Hangouts, Doors, Signs, Stores, Services, Autos, Hotels and ...             The Tunnel20 reviews William H. Gass Dalkey Archive Pr, 2007 A Story For The Ages As my first introduction to Gass, I found The Tunnel to be slightly daunting, but as the story kept unfolding, I found myself being more and more enraptured by the novel. The wordplay, the asides, I could not restrain myself from continuing to read the novel. The novel never moved slow since aspects of Kohler were being developed over the whole thing. A short summary: This is a book about a ...             In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories (Nonpareil Books, #21)5 reviews William H. Gass David R Godine, 2005 Please Keep Early Gass in Print, Vote 2 Early William H. Gass is essential. This fairly straightforward book is early Gass. Gass after Omensetter is a very personal taste. Fame, even the tiny minor academic variety, infects human beings oddly. Gass only had a few stories to tell. This book matters. Please keep the great early Gass alive/available & do not worry much about the later still quite interesting but arrogant blatting.             Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)12 reviews William H. Gass Penguin Classics, 1997 My favorite novel, bar none. Omensetter's Luck has been a treasured, special book for me since I first read it many years ago.My copy is battered from several readings and dippings over time and the fact it once was drenched by an incoming tide and covered in sand as I lay on a beach in Mexico but I will never part with it. Reading this beautiful novel you become swamped and overwhelmed by a magical language world. I'd like ...             Auguste Rodin1 review Rainer Maria Rilke Archipelago Books, 2004 "All right, Ben. Attend me." "Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to ...             Fiction and the Figures of Life1 review William H. Gass David R Godine, 1978 fiction and the figures of life This is a supurb collection of essays by one of the very few American philosophers who can write well. Gass combines a penetrating insight into the human condition, an awareness of genuine philosophical difficulties, and a grasp of the way words should be used. He is a true wordsmith who has something important to say. I recommend this book highly.             The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: A Novel16 reviews Rainer Maria Rilke Vintage, 1985 An intellectual goldmine... This proto-existentialist novel features a main character (Malte) that is frightened by the possibility of faceless-ness; that is, he is terrified by the collapse of a coherent subject/identity in modernity. This work is highly critical of the traditional narrative where everything occurs in a logical and temporal order that is coherent and teleological. Through the character of Malte, Rilke ...             On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry10 reviews William H. Gass David R. Godine Publisher, 1991 Keep At It If I am any sort of example, you will not be sure what this book is about, until you're through. Keep at it. On the way, it's one of the most wondrous pieces of writing I've encountered. When you're there, if I am any sort of example, you will weep (for the joy of affirmation, mostly) and start again.             The Anatomy of Melancholy (New York Review Books Classics)22 reviews Robert Burton NYRB Classics, 2001 Vivisect your mind Where to begin discussing this book? How about again and again? For it begs never to be put down, and if finished (as if that's even possible) to be picked up again and pored over. Again. And again. And again . . . It got Samuel Jonson out of bed earlier than he wished. It kept me up later than I wished, and still "reading" it in my mind over and over again, musing on the insanity of it - the ...             Finding a Form: Essays2 reviews William H. Gass Cornell University Press, 1997 The Music of Gass For anyone tired with the last fifteen years of "hip" postmodernism, this is an inspiring collection of darkly comic and seriously focussed essays ranging from the dillema of language and meaning to the innanity of literary prizes (which is especially juicy and hostile due to the fact that Gass, in the ranks of Pynchon, Gaddis, Reed, Coover and Ashberry, has never won one). Gass's prose cranks ...             In The Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories William H Gass Perennial Libary, 1968             The World Within the Word: Essays2 reviews William H. Gass Basic Books, 2000 O I have sailed the seas and come to B . . . At his best, Gass reminds me of Montaigne. While the latter spent much of his time ruminating about Self, Gass essays his verbal prowess to inhabit Word--the logos made flesh. The later Wittgenstein also comes to mind. His seminal short story, "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country," was a tour de force, a literary work which bowled me over with its virtuosity with language. His essays, ...             Hayden's Ferry Review : Fall/ Winter 2004-05 Bryon Bull, Stuart Dischell, ... Arizona State University, 2005             Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))2 reviews William H. Gass Dalkey Archive Press, 1999 This book changed the way I look at a coffee table. This book changed the way I look at a coffee table. It changed the way I look at fonts. It must be read, browsed and left out for others to browse. Leave it in the bathroom and see what happens. You will learn much about your guests as they sit on the pot             Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation12 reviews William H. Gass Basic Books, 2000 The place to start if you want to read Rilke It may seem odd that a book about translating Rainer Maria Rilke would be a good place to start encountering the poet. But Rilke is not only a brilliant poet, one of the greatest of the twentieth century, he is also difficult to approach. I read him on and off for ten years before I could see beyond what I thought was pretentious esthetic posturing. (Now, like so many others, I see Rilke as ...              search for books american, anatomy, archive, auguste, cartesian, classics, drive-ins, everyday, fiction, figures, finding, inquiry, laurids, literature, lonesome, masters, melancholy, monuments, nonpareil, notebooks, novellas, omensetter, philosophical, problems, reading, reflections, translation, twentieth, twentieth-century, vanishing books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Erzähl, Erzähl. Von der Lust aufs Erzählen und dem Weg zum Gelingen. leave a comment home  impressum - about us