A Music Behind the Wall: Selected Stories, Vol. 1

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A Music Behind the Wall: Selected Stories, Vol. 1

The stories of the celebrated Italian author of The Iguana traverse more than fifty years, yet are timeless. They are concerned not so much with external reality as with moments in which an inner lifeâ€“composed of perception and thought and fantasyâ€“becomes visible. The ten stories in this first of two volumes of English translation touch nearly all of the modes Anna Maria Ortese has developed during her long and productive creative life, from the early "magical realism" to the most recent work which lies, as the translator notes, "at the edge of fable...[where] one listens to an otherworldly tale while casting a vigilant, questioning eye about the room in which it is told." Ortese plumbs the strangeness of the world, its mysterious reality, and the dramatic emotion contained within the solitary imagination. Elsewhere the author describes the urgency of her vision: "For adultsâ€“or among highly cultivated peoplesâ€“the whole world is the world of the obvious, of the commonplace.... But for children, or adolescents, or a certain sort of artist, thatâ€™s not the way things stand. Wherever they go, everything shines with a light that betrays no origins. Everything they touchâ€“that flag, that horse, that oceanâ€“is vibrant with electricity and leaves them wonderstruck. They understand what adults have ceased to understand: that the world is a heavenly body; that all things within and beyond the world are made of cosmic matter; and that their nature, their meaningâ€“except for a dazzling gentlenessâ€“is unsoundable."

Country	USA
Author	Anna Maria Ortese
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	Brand: McPherson
EAN	9780929701394
Edition	1st US
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0929701399
Label	McPherson
Manufacturer	McPherson
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	160
PublicationDate	1994-05
Publisher	McPherson
Studio	McPherson
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

A Music Behind the Wall: Selected Stories, Vol. 1

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