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Love and Death in the American Novel
Leslie A. Fiedler
A retrospective article on Leslie Fiedler in the New York Times Book Review in 1965 referred to Love and Death in the American Novel as "one of the great, essential books on the American imagination . . . an accepted major work."
Los Angeles Times
It is not possible to read Leslie Fiedler's criticism without a sense of awe and excitement.
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Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature
Warren F. Motte
This is an amazing anthology of writings by members of the group known as Oulipo, including, among others, Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, Georges Perec, Jacques Roubaud, and Raymond Queneau. Put simply, this group, which was founded in Paris in 1960...
South Atlantic Review
This reader is truly impressed by Motte's capacity to present, in a clear fashion, material that is still new and 'difficult' to most of his readership.
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Theory of Prose
Viktor Shklovsky, Benjamin Sher
Viktor Shklovsky's 1925 book Theory of Prose might have become the most important work of literary criticism in the twentieth century had not two obstacles barred its way: the crackdown by Soviet dictatorship on Shklovsky and other Russian...
Washington Post Book World
"A rambling, digressive stylist, Shklovsky throws off brilliant aperçus on every page . . . Sixty-five years after it first appeared, Theory of Prose remains an exciting book: Like an architect's blueprint, it lays bare the joists and studs that hold up the house of fiction."
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Aidan Higgins: The Fragility of Form
Neil Murphy
Drawing together a wide range of focused critical commentary and observation by internationally renowned scholars and writers, this collection of essays offers a major reassessment of Aidan Higgins’s body of work almost fifty years after the...
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A Community Writing Itself
Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area
Sarah Rosenthal interviews contemporary experimental American writers about art and life.
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Duras: A Biography
Alain Vircondelet, Thomas Buckley
This is the first full-length biography of one of the best-known and most influential French writers of our time, as celebrated for her films (Hiroshima Mon Amour) as for her novels (The Ravishing of Lol Stein, The Lover). It takes Duras from colonial...
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The Enamoured Knight
Douglas Glover
This book is filled with passion and love for the art of writing and is a celebration of reading. Through the prism of the great Russian Formalist Viktor Shklovsky, Douglas Glover provides a scrupulous reading of Cervantes's Don Quixote.
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Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot
Viktor Shklovsky, Shushan Avagyan
One of the greatest literary minds of the twentieth century, Viktor Shklovsky writes the critical equivalent of what Ross Chambers calls "loiterature"—writing that roams, playfully digresses, moving freely between the literary work and the...
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