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BRILLIANT SILENCE

3.9/5 ( ratings)

A legendary storyteller and writer who has charmed New York audiences for decades, Holst first evolved his oeuvre in the 1950s-60s milieu of Greenwich Village, influenced as much by sophisticated poets/writers as by fairy tales/tall-tales which his writings superficially resemble. Each of his sentences, paragraphs, and very, very short stories is a complete and independent act of narrative that delivers the very essence of narrative fiction. In spite of their brevity, these are works of great variety and complexity, displaying a fine intelligence and an inexhaustible capacity for verbal surprise. Holst breaks the very frame of what a story is and what language can do.

Language: English

Pages: 175

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc.

Release: January 01, 2010

ISBN: 1581770553

ISBN 13: 9781581770551

BRILLIANT SILENCE

3.9/5 ( ratings)

A legendary storyteller and writer who has charmed New York audiences for decades, Holst first evolved his oeuvre in the 1950s-60s milieu of Greenwich Village, influenced as much by sophisticated poets/writers as by fairy tales/tall-tales which his writings superficially resemble. Each of his sentences, paragraphs, and very, very short stories is a complete and independent act of narrative that delivers the very essence of narrative fiction. In spite of their brevity, these are works of great variety and complexity, displaying a fine intelligence and an inexhaustible capacity for verbal surprise. Holst breaks the very frame of what a story is and what language can do.

Language: English

Pages: 175

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc.

Release: January 01, 2010

ISBN: 1581770553

ISBN 13: 9781581770551

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