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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2017].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Debriefing collects all of Susan Sontag's shorter fiction, a form she turned to intermittently throughout her writing life. The book ranges from allegory to parable to autobiography and shows her wrestling with problems not assimilable to the essay, her more customary mode. Here she catches fragments of life on the fly, dramatizes her private griefs and fears, lets characters take her where they will. The result is a collection of remarkable brilliance,...
4) I, etcetera
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
©1978
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In eight stories, this singular collection of short fiction written over the course of ten years explores the terrain of modern urban life. In reflective, telegraphic prose, Susan Sontag confronts the reader with exposed workings of an impassioned intellect in narratives seamed with many of the themes of her essays, the nature of knowing, our relationship with the past, and the future in an alienated present.
5) Death kit
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1967]
Physical Desc
311 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
First published in 1967, Death Kit-Susan Sontag's classic of modern fiction. Blending realism and dream, it offers a passionate exploration of the recesses of the American conscience.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xxiv, 209 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In his posthumous memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that both cover the basics of his existence and open out into philosophical explorations that sometimes follow meandering paths of thought to unexpected places, at times exuberant and hilarious, at other times cynical and utterly at odds with the world around him. In the tradition of...
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xv, 480 pages 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman."--
8) Zelig
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This spoof of documentary films stars Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, the famous "Chameleon Man" of the 1920's, whose personality was so vague he would assume the characteristics of whomever he came into contact with. Filmed in black-and-white, the movie simulates the look of a newsreel, complete with stentorian narration.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness’s Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Snæfells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead.
But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this dereliction...
But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this dereliction...
10) Pedro Páramo
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Language
English
Description
A masterpiece of the surreal that influenced a generation of writers in Latin America, Pedro Páramo is the otherworldly tale of one man's quest for his lost father. That man swears to his dying mother that he will find the father he has never met--Pedro Páramo--but when he reaches the town of Comala, he finds it haunted by memories and hallucinations. There emerges the tragic tale of Páramo himself, and the town whose every corner holds the taint...
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