Creative Vacation. Knight's Romance
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Creative Vacation. Knight's Romance
19.99 €
15.99 €
Former CIA employee Fenwick Scott Key Turner - perhaps a direct descendant of the author of the U.S. anthem, who wrote a revealing book about his former employers - and his young wife, American Classics teacher Susan Rachel Allan Seckler, a half-Jewish, half-Gypsy and perhaps a descendant of Edgar Allan Poe, return to the Chesapeake Bay from a romantic voyage around the Caribbean. Along the way, they generally compose a novel (there is a theory that it became the next novel by John Barth himself), encounter a variety of maritime adventures, and get out of all sorts of messes. Storms, sea monsters, ominous islands await them - and over everything hangs the dark shadow of these very employers of Fenwick....
Woven at once from all the characteristic and favorite twists of John Barth's creative handwriting, the novel definitely does not bore the reader. It is surprising because, in fact, it is not that "clever" or "intellectual" novel, which seems to expect from authors of such caliber and generation, like Pynchon, Hawkes and Barthelmy, with whom the Russian-speaking reader is traditionally "difficult". It's more of a simple genre family saga and, of course, a love story - but it's written with postmodern tools and everything that is usually lying on the workshop floor. And since our workshop is a writer's workshop, the novel turned out to be quite philological. And chamber - it is, in general, a perfect play with special effects: the duo of main characters and a small auxiliary troupe live in front of our eyes for about two weeks, never once making the reader (peeping viewer) doubt that they are real....
Well, and, in order to continue without spoilers, it is necessary to say only about one more feature of the novel - about the inscription of the text in the territory (or rather, water area; not a map, we note, although it will not hurt to have an idea of the folds of the terrain). The Chesapeake Bay itself is one of those places that can certainly be read as a book. Navigating these places will be quite smooth, but winding.
Woven at once from all the characteristic and favorite twists of John Barth's creative handwriting, the novel definitely does not bore the reader. It is surprising because, in fact, it is not that "clever" or "intellectual" novel, which seems to expect from authors of such caliber and generation, like Pynchon, Hawkes and Barthelmy, with whom the Russian-speaking reader is traditionally "difficult". It's more of a simple genre family saga and, of course, a love story - but it's written with postmodern tools and everything that is usually lying on the workshop floor. And since our workshop is a writer's workshop, the novel turned out to be quite philological. And chamber - it is, in general, a perfect play with special effects: the duo of main characters and a small auxiliary troupe live in front of our eyes for about two weeks, never once making the reader (peeping viewer) doubt that they are real....
Well, and, in order to continue without spoilers, it is necessary to say only about one more feature of the novel - about the inscription of the text in the territory (or rather, water area; not a map, we note, although it will not hurt to have an idea of the folds of the terrain). The Chesapeake Bay itself is one of those places that can certainly be read as a book. Navigating these places will be quite smooth, but winding.
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