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The Death of Picasso: New & Selected Writing

✍ Scribed by Davenport, Guy

Book ID: 109906633
Publisher: Open Road Media
Tongue: English
Weight: 981 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781504019613

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✦ Synopsis

A collection of essays and stories showcasing one of America's most insightful thinkers at his best
Featuring both short stories and critical pieces, The Death of Picasso exhibits the versatility and innovative thinking that drives all of Guy Davenport's work. As a critic, he takes on topics such as Ruskin's life and influences and Benson Bobrick's history of English versions of the Bible, through which Davenport explores how translation has affected the text's interpretation for centuries. Both his fiction and essays contribute to the eternal conversation on how the arts reflect, inform, and influence the human experience.

In his short stories, Davenport vividly evokes entire worlds—such as that of a regatta on the Thames or an air show in Northern Italy—with an eye for telling details that typically go unnoticed. Fact and fiction combine and shift forms throughout the collection, for instance, in "The Concord Sonata" when the...

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