Pathways to the Spirit by Susan Santucci

Pathways to the Spirit by Susan Santucci

This collection] displays Vian's range from gallows humor to verbal fireworks, and happily serves to give visibility to this important writer.- Publishers Weekly. Ultimately, Blues for a Black Cat is a collection of moral fables, albeit fables told in a cynical, mocking voice and set in a skewed version of the real world. Under the surface absurdity and verbal play, they offer serious indictments of human weakness and pretensions. Further, they reveal the spiritual emptiness just beneath our civilized facade. Vian's blues are not only for a black cat, but for a society without meaning.- Manoa. Blues for a Black Cat] brings back the nimble Vian in a collection of his short fiction, initially published as Les Fourmis in 1949. The work has the unmistakable flavor of the time and place, Claude Abadie's jazz band, the coded and absurdist messages of rebellion, the wistful fables, verbal riffs and goofy anarchic encounters; the mise-en-scene includes an expiring jazzman who sells his sweat, a cat with a British accent and a piano that mixes a cocktail when Mood Indigo is played.-Boston Globe. Boris Vian (1920-59), a trained engineer and jazz trumpet player, was a major literary figure in World War I France. Julia Older is the author or editor of many works. Her stories, translations, and poems have appeared in New Directions, the New Yorker, and many other journals.

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ISBN 13	9780786884292
ISBN 10	0786884290
Titel	Pathways to the Spirit
Autor	Susan Santucci
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Hyperion
Erscheinungsjahr	1999-05-19
Seitenanzahl	222
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.