Text and voice : essays 1981-1991 / Gabriel Josipovici
1992, 1st edition. Carcanet ; St. Martin's Press. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #410503
ISBN: 0856359343
Physical description; 290 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-283) and index. Contents; 1. The Bible in focus -- 2. Eating your words: Dante as modernist -- 3. Reflections on Echo -- 4. Maurice Blanchot -- 5. Samuel Beckett: the need to fail -- 6. The Balzac of M. Barthes and the Balzac of M. de Guermantes -- 7. Text and voice -- 8. Perec's La Vie mode d'emploi -- Writing and the body: i. The body in the library -- ii. Everything and nothing -- iii. 'Non ego sed Demosthenes dixit' -- iv. 'A bird was in the room'. Subjects; Literature History and criticism. Literature. English essays 20th century Collections. Literature, Modern History and criticism. Literature History and criticism.
Price: €28.00