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Beauty and Sadness

Beauty and Sadness

André Alexis
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Award-winning novelist and critic Andre Alexis explores worlds with names such as Henry James, Maupassant, and Kawabata, trying, like any traveller, to faithfully convey what he sees and feels in those places while giving a convincing portrait of himself. At the same time, Beauty and Sadness is an autobiography. Alexis's intent is to give a sense of what it is like to live ecstatically through literature -- what it is like to read Tolstoy and feel that The Death of Ivan Ilych, for instance, is connected to the land of his birth, Trinidad, as intimately as it is to his home, Canada.


In the final piece of the book, entitled "Water", Alexis gives the reader an intimate sense of what it has been like to live as a writer these last twenty years while practicing an art form that he contends is in decline. In the author's own words: Beauty and sadness is where world and words meet.
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publisher
House of Anansi Press
Release
September 04, 2010
ISBN
0887847501
ISBN 13
9780887847509

Beauty and Sadness

André Alexis
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Award-winning novelist and critic Andre Alexis explores worlds with names such as Henry James, Maupassant, and Kawabata, trying, like any traveller, to faithfully convey what he sees and feels in those places while giving a convincing portrait of himself. At the same time, Beauty and Sadness is an autobiography. Alexis's intent is to give a sense of what it is like to live ecstatically through literature -- what it is like to read Tolstoy and feel that The Death of Ivan Ilych, for instance, is connected to the land of his birth, Trinidad, as intimately as it is to his home, Canada.


In the final piece of the book, entitled "Water", Alexis gives the reader an intimate sense of what it has been like to live as a writer these last twenty years while practicing an art form that he contends is in decline. In the author's own words: Beauty and sadness is where world and words meet.
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publisher
House of Anansi Press
Release
September 04, 2010
ISBN
0887847501
ISBN 13
9780887847509

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