A temple of texts
Subtitle: essays
By: William H. Gass.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Champaign
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781564784681
Subjects: Gass, William H., -- 1924- -- Books and reading; Literature -- History and criticism; Authorship
Notes: Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Table of contents: title: To a young friend charged with possession of the classics; title: Influence; title: A temple of texts : fifty literary pillars; title: The blessed company : The book of prefaces; title: Erasmus : The praise of folly; title: Anonymous : A thousand and one nights; title: François Rabelais : Gargantua and Pantagruel; title: Robert Burton : The anatomy of melancholy; title: Gertrude Stein : Three lives; title: Flann O'Brien : At Swim-Two-Birds; title: Ernesto Sabato : On heroes and tombs; title: A defense of the book; title: William Caddis and his goddamn books; title: Elias Canetti : The tongue set free; title: John Hawkes : Humors of blood & skin; title: Robert Coover : The public burning; title: Gabriel García Márquez : Chronicle of a death foretold; title: Stanley Elkin : open on the Sabbath; title: The sentence seeks its form; title: Rainer Maria Rilke : Auguste Rodin; title: Rainer Maria Rilke : Rilke and the requiem; title: Sacred texts; title: Spectacles; title: Evil.