Under the Shadow (Revised) - (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Gilbert Sorrentino (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Under the Shadow?takes the form of fifty-nine brief sketches with simple nouns as titles. These exquisite vignettes take place on a plane at once surreal, abstract, and ominous, describing a set of people and incidents derived largely from fragments of conversation and gossip gathered here and there. They are reminiscent of Raymond Roussel's characters amid his inimitable ersatz pastorals, with tableaux both innocent and grotesque. There is something ambiguous about these passages, something deliberately closed and dreamlike. Many of them read like primal scenes of private pathologies; others are memories that, many years later, retain their power to haunt.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><P>"Under the Shadow" is a rare contemporary work that is wise enough to allow the reader to be a collaborator in the production of meaning rather than a consumer of another's literary mirage.--"San Francisco Chronicle"<br><br><P> "Under the Shadow" is a rare contemporary work that is wise enough to allow the reader to be a collaborator in the production of meaning rather than a consumer of another's literary mirage.--"San Francisco Chronicle"<br><br><P>A rare specimen of the genre: an intellectual page-turner.--"Publishers Weekly"<br><br><P>Long after you have turned the last page, "Under the Shadow" goes on inhabiting your thoughts and activating your imagination. This is a virtuoso performance by our most original writer. Read it, you'll like it.--"Dallas Morning News"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><P>Gilbert Sorrentino was one of the founders (1956, together with Hubert Selby Jr.) and the editor (1956-1960) of the literary magazine "Neon," the editor for Kulchur (1961-1963), and an editor at Grove Press (1965-1970). Selby's?"Last Exit to Brooklyn"?(1964) and?"The Autobiography of Malcolm X"?are among his editorial projects. Later he took up positions at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, the University of Scranton and the New School for Social Research in New York and then was a professor of English at Stanford University (1982-1999). The novelists?Jeffrey Eugenides?and?Nicole Krauss?were among his students, and his son, Christopher Sorrentino, is the author of the novels?"Sound on Sound"?and?"Trance."
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