Rabelais's Doughnuts
Sublunary Editions, 2022. First Edition. Trade Paperback. New. Item #604356
ISBN: 1955190992
New! 124pp. Rabelais's Doughnuts is an original collection of the short writings of Pierre Senges. It brings together seven monologues, essays, fictions, and glosses that have never appeared together before: “Suite', “Last Judgment (detail)”, “A Slightly Vain Exercise in Style', “On the Electrophorus and the Tohu-Bohu', “Measure of All Things', “Many Ways to Stuff a Watermelon', “The Counterfeiter'. Topics addressed include: Daniele da Volterra and the Sistine Chapel; the correspondence of Pierre Aretino, addressed to the artist Michelangelo; the affordances of different media for writing/reading through the ages; the relative merits of manifestos versus those of six-hundred-page novels; various writers’ libraries, real, apocryphal, and fictional; Kleist’s Abendblatter; and slightly vain exercises in style. ~ Publisher.
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