DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS

FLAUBERT, JOYCE AND BECKETT
An enlightening study of three writers, Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett: The Stoic Comedians begins with an explanation of the effect of the printing press on books. The "book as book" has been removed from the oral tradition by such features as prefaces, footnotes, and indexes. Books have become voiceless in some sense - they are to be read silently, not recited aloud. How this mechanical change affected the possibilities of fiction is Kenner's subject. Each of the three featured authors approached this situation in a unique, yet connected wa...
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(P/B) MISS MACLNTOSH, MY DARLING
This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel a novel of the road, a journey or voyage of the human spirit in its search for reality in a world of illusion and nightmare. It is an epic of what might be called the Arabian Nights of American life. Marguerite Young's method is poetic, imagistic, incantatory; in prose of extraordinary richness she tests the nature of her characters―and the nature of reality. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling is written with oceanic mu...
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