A mania for sentences / D.J. Enright
1983, First Edition. London : Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Publisher's review copy. Not price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #409260
ISBN: 0701126620
Physical description; viii, 211 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-208) and index. Contents; Democracy of gods : a life of Heine -- The story of two souls : Goethe and the Manns -- Stupendous cannot be easy : on Robert Musil -- Echt Brecht -- Tours de ... : on Max Frisch -- Sisyphus and his stone : Gunter Grass and Heinrich Boll -- Tale of Genju and two women diarists -- Flaubert : his letters and ladies -- Honour of defeat : Villiers de l'Isle-Adam -- Sancho Panza and Peter Pan : on The good soldier Svejk and its author -- Chinese fictions -- at home and abroad -- Scholarship, sexship, shitship : misadventures among words -- Usage : good, common, and most uncommon -- Rust-removers : Raymond Queneau and G.V. Desani -- Lifting up one's life a trifle : on E.B. White -- That happy kindergarten-state -- Last words : on Anthony Burgess. Subjects; Literature History and criticism. Literature. Literature, Modern History and criticism. Fiction. Literature 1750-1982 Critical studies.
Price: €12.95