Christopher Smart's cat
By: Igor Webb
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Dos Madres
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Loveland, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781948017022
Subjects: Influence; Prose; American Autobiographical fiction; Literature and morals; Personal narratives
Work titles: Poems
Description: "This is a book about displacement, flight, settlement and resettlement, about life and death in the Pannonian plain, as Igor Webb writes, appropriating the old Roman name for today s Central Europe in order to identify the geographical place as also the metaphorical center, the crossroads, of twentieth century history and culture. Told from the vantage point of those, like the author, who were children in the Holocaust, the book is a beautifully crafted meditation on great writers from Virginia Woolf to W.G. Sebald, from Philip Roth to Danilo Ki as well as a gripping tale alive with remarkable characters. None more remarkable than Christopher Smart (1722-1771), whose ecstatic verse mysteriously provides the book with its title."--Back cover.