The Hunter Gracchus and other papers on literature and art
1st pbk. ed.
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Author
Publication
1997 - Counterpoint, Washington, D.C, District of Columbia
Language
English
Word Count
84,750 words, Guess
Page Count
339 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1003430M
- ISBN-101887178244
- OCLC Control Number51231314
- Library of Congress Control Number96043090
- LibraryThing130649
and 1 more
- Goodreads2432612
Classifications
- DDC700
- LCCNX60 .D38 1997
Alternate Titles
- Hunter Gracchus
Description
Hardly the typical essay collection, The Hunter Gracchus is better described as a collage of ideas, commentary, and criticism from an eclectic stylist whose sentences ring with clarity and originality. Moving effortlessly from snake handling to Wallace Stevens, these essays take delight in an immense range of topics, including art and architecture, religion, and literature. In one essay, Davenport recalls a lunch with Thomas Merton at the Ramada Inn, where Merton, already the world's most famous Trappist monk, drank several martinis and held forth on the architecture of Buddhist temples. In another, Davenport finds in postwar modernism a catalogue of our lost innocence. In the stunning title essay, he maps out the world of a posthumously published story by Franz Kafka.
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