EAN: 9781644212868

WRITERS - BARRY GIFFORD KARTONIERT (TB)

In Writers  great American storyteller Barry Gifford paints portraits of famous writers caught
in imaginary vulnerable moments in their lives. In prose that is funny  grotesque  and a touch
brutal  Gifford shows these writers at their most human  which is to say at their worst: they
are liars  frauds  lousy lovers  and drunks. This is a world in which Ernest Hemingway
drunkenly sets explosive trip wires outside his home in Cuba  Marcel Proust implores the angel
of death as a delirious Arthur Rimbaud lies dying in a hospital bed  and Albert Camus converses
with a young prostitute while staring at himself in the mirror of a New York City hotel room.
In Gifford's house of mirrors  we are offered a unique perspective on this group of literary
greats. These stories  meant to be performed as plays  are tender and thoughtful exercises in
empathy. Obsessions loom large  especially a preoccupation with death. Gifford asks: What does
it mean to devote oneself entirely to art? And as an artist  what defines failure  or success?
This new edition of Writers includes five new pieces  featuring Georges Simenon with André Gide
Franz Kafka with Marcel Proust  Flannery O’Connor with William Burroughs  Ivan Turgenev with
Fyodor Dostoyevsky  Joseph Conrad with D.H. Lawrence  and Willa Cather with Gypsy Rose Lee.

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