Twice upon a time : stories / Daniel Stern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stern, Daniel, 1928-2007.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--Fiction.

Books and reading.

Intertextuality--Fiction.

Intertextuality.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

239 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Norton, [1992]

Summary:

Twice Upon a Time is author Daniel Stern's second literary adventure in weaving fresh modern tales from the thematic threads of great texts of the past. His new collection focuses on some classic favorites - "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville and "A Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka - and turns them upside down with enchanting results. Pushing the boundaries even further, two famous poems by Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning" and "The Man with the Blue Guitar," draw.

Forth stories both rueful and comic. And, as Eastern Europe was crumbling, Stern was inspired to write a novella of youth and lost illusions called "A Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels." Several years ago, Daniel Stern began this brilliantly inventive literary journey with the acclaimed Twice Told Tales. Now, these new, half-dozen, bold and witty variations prove once again that there are no real boundaries where books, ideas, lives, and loves are.

Concerned.

Contents:

A hunger artist / by Franz Kafka

Sunday morning / by Wallace Stevens

Wakefield / by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Bartleby the scrivener / by Herman Melville

The man with the blue guitar / by Wallace Stevens

The communist manifesto / by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

039303402X

9780393034028

OCLC:

25547602