The world within the word: Essays

About this book

In this sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life one of Americas most brilliant and eclectic minds examines literature culture writers (their lives and works) and the nature and uses of language and the written word. Included are discussions of Valry Henry Miller Sartre Freud Faulkner suicide "art and order " and the transformation of language into poetry and fiction. The vividness and clarity of Gasss writing the unabashed love and inimitable use of language-his startling metaphors the sinuousness of his philosophy the originality of his vision-make each essay a searching revelation of its subject as well as an example of Gasss own singular artistry.