Da Vinci's Bicycle: Ten StoriesNew Directions Publishing, 1997 - 185 Seiten Esteemed writer and translator Guy Davenport's brilliant story collection, first published in 1979, is recognized today as a classic of American fiction. Written with tremendous wit, intelligence, and verve, the stories are based on historical figures whose endeavors were too early, too late, or went against the grain of their time. |
Inhalt
The Richard Nixon Freischütz Rag | 1 |
Au Tombeau de Charles Fourier | 59 |
Ithaka | 114 |
The Antiquities of Elis | 131 |
A Field of Snow on a Slope of the Rosenberg | 149 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acacia Alice Amma Apollinaire Archytas Aristander Artemis asked Barbet basket beard bird blue boys bummo Chairman Mao Charles Fourier Claribel collarbone Consiliarii crabgrass cried dance Dogon door Dovey drums earth Eleans Elis emperor eyes Ezra Pound face feet fingers flowers French Gertrude Stein girl grass Greeks green gymnasium Haile Selassie hair hands Hanna head Herakles Herr Hogon horse inside Joyce knees light looked Lykas Miss Fanny Miss Rudge Monsieur Hugo moon mouth Musonius Rufus never Nora Joyce Nummo Ogo's Ogotemmêli okra old party Olympia Pappos phalanx photograph Pylos Pyttalos quaggas rain remember Richard Nixon rock rolled Roman rose Rufzeichen Salai seen shoulders smile stars stood streets talk Tapner tell temple things Thyia told trees turned twin walk wall wasp Wilbur Wright wind window wine woman yala yellow