| Four Cold Chapters on the Possibility of Literature: (Leading Mostly to Borges and Oulipo) Contributor(s): Ruiz, Pablo (Author) |
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ISBN: 1628970588 ISBN-13: 9781628970586 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - General - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American - Literary Collections | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 801 |
| LCCN: 2013046393 |
| Series: Scholarly |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.20 lbs) 380 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What can be said about the silence that precedes a poem or a story? What myths have been thought up to explain the transition from "nothing" to a work of art? And when did the "account of composition" turn into a literary genre of its own? These questions are the heart of Pablo M. Ruiz's excursion into the center(s) of literary creativity. Filled with paradoxes and parables, "Four Cold Chapters" takes in Borges, Perec, and Felisberto Hern?ndez, as well as several suggested but politely avoided doctoral dissertations, on its journey through the universe of writing (and writing about writing). |