Pricksongs & Descants

Pricksongs & Descants

Robert Coover

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Editorial:
Penguin Random House UK
Año de edición:
2011
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9780141192956
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In his carnivalesque and riotously inventive Pricksongs & Descants Robert Coover remakes old stories: of Red Riding Hood Hansel and Gretel and Beauty (who married her Beast and spends a lifetime suffering his doggy stink). And he reshapes his own: a man makes repeating re-imagined journeys in an office elevator (while his fellow riders taunt and tempt him) and in the seminal fractal ’The Babysitter’ every moment in a single night is played and replayed every hope and threat of sex and violence done and undone. Coover’s dark wilfil comic imagination revels brilliantly in contradictions a master of chaos.

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