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Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the "German problem," World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Wall, reunification, and the connections between them. But not travel books, not the free-ranging and impressionistic works of literary nonfiction we associate with V. S. Naipaul and Bruce Chatwin. What is it about Germany and the travel book that puts them seemingly at odds? With one foot in the library and one on the street, Michael Gorra offers both an answer to this question and his own traveler's tale of Germany. Gorra uses Goethe's account of his Italian journey as a model for testing the traveler's response to Germany today, and he subjects the shopping arcades of contemporary German cities to the terms of Benjamin's Arcades project. He reads post-Wende Berlin through the novels of Theodor Fontane, examines the role of figurative language, and enlists W. G. Sebald as a guide to the place of fragments and digressions in travel writing. Replete with the flaneur's chance discoveries--and rich in the delights of the enduring and the ephemeral, of architecture and flood--The Bells in Their Silence offers that rare traveler's tale of Germany while testing the very limits of the travel narrative as a literary form.

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Scott, Paul --- Rushdie, Salman --- Naipaul, Vidiadhar S. --- Anglo-Indian fiction --- Decolonization in literature. --- English fiction --- Imperialism in literature. --- Indic fiction (English) --- National characteristics, British, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Naipaul, V.S. --- National characteristics, British, in literature --- Decolonization in literature --- Imperialism in literature --- 820 "19" --- 820 "19" Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- History and criticism --- Scott, Paul, --- Naipaul, V. S. --- Rushdie, Salman. --- Naĭpol, V. S. --- Naĭpol, V. S., --- Naĭpol, Vidiadkhar Suradzhprasad, --- Найпол, В. С., --- Найпол, Видиадхар Сураджпрасад, --- נאיפול, ו. ס. --- Knowledge --- India. --- India --- In literature. --- RUSHDIE (SALMAN), 1947 --- -SCOTT (PAUL), 1920 --- -NAIPAUL (VIDIADHAR SURAJPRASAD), 1932 --- -MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN --- RAJ QUARTET --- KNOWLEDGE INDIA

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This is a book about everything blue—sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things—and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do. Gass writes: Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up. Among the ancient elements, blue occurs everywhere: in ice and water, in the flame as purely as in the flower, overhead and inside caves, covering fruit and oozing out of clay. Although green enlivens the earth and mixes in the ocean, and we find it, copperish, in fire; green air, green skies, are rare. Gray and brown are widely distributed, but there are no joyful swatches of either, or any of exuberant black, sullen pink, or acquiescent orange. Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life. Whether slick light sharp high bright thin quick sour new and cool or low deep sweet dark soft slow smooth heavy old and warm: blue moves easily among them all, and all profoundly qualify our states of feeling.

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Championed by Robert Penn Warren and Eudora Welty early in her career, Elizabeth Spencer (1921-2019) was a major fiction writer of the later Southern Renaissance, though she continued to produce first-rate fiction well into the twenty-first century and found settings for her stories and novels beyond the South. Today, her many books and stories are scattered or out of print. This volume brings together her best writing-three novels and nineteen stories-from a career spanning more than six decades. The Voice at the Back Door (1957), greeted by The New Yorker as "a practically perfect novel," portrays small-town life in Mississippi during the Jim Crow era and the self-interest and hatred that kept injustice firmly in place. Published two years after the Emmett Till lynching, it cuts uncomfortably close in ventriloquizing the spitting vehemence of its white characters' speech and may have been proven too potentially controversial for the Pulitzer board (which awarded no prize in 1957). Also included in this volume are The Light in the Piazza (1960), Spencer's most famous work, a deft poignant comedy about Americans abroad that was adapted to the screen by Guy Green; and a second superb Italian novella, Knights and Dragons (1965), reminiscent of Henry James's novels in its atmosphere, interiority, and concern with transplanted Americans. The short story is perhaps the genre for which Spencer is best known. Included here is a selection of her best short fiction, from the early "First Dark" (1959), a kind of ghost story about a spectral oversized house in a Southern town, to the valedictory "The Wedding Visitor" (2013), about the refusal to let the all-enveloping world of place, family, and childhood define one's adult life. Frequently, Spencer's subject is families, and she understands as few writers have the passions that unite families and the inner upheavals that can tear them apart.