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The human country : new and collected stories / Harry Mathews.
- Title
- The human country : new and collected stories / Harry Mathews.
- Author
- Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017.
- Publication
- Chicago : Dalkey Archive Press, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3563.A8359 H86 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 186 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "The Human Country collects all of Mathews's shorter fiction, including the early stories from Country Cooking, the mid-career stories from The American Experience, and ten recent, previously uncollected pieces that are every bit as brilliant and surprising. These stories include "The Broadcast," in which the narrator learns from a radio program that everything he needs in life should fit into one sock; "Clocking the World on Cue," an Oulipian story that employs the centuries-old literary form of the Chronogram; and "Calibration of Latitude," which follows Sir Joseph Pernican on a meandering and seemingly aimless journey (through the city and through his imagination) that in the end proves not aimless at all, but rather - like all of Mathews's work - purposeful and deeply moving."--Jacket.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- First Stories -- Tradition and the Individual Talent: The "Bratislava Spiccato" -- The Dialect of the Tribe -- The Novel as History -- Country Cooking from Central France: Roast Boned Rolled Stuffed Shoulder of Lamb (Farce Double) -- The Network -- Remarks of the Scholar Graduate -- The Ledge -- Their Words, for You -- The American Experience: Stories to be Read Aloud -- The Way Home -- Tear Sheet -- Letters from Yerevan -- The Chariot -- Franz Kafka in Riga -- Still Life -- Calibrations of Latitude -- Dear Mother -- Mr. Smathers -- Brendan -- The Broadcast -- Calibrations of Latitude -- The Taxidermist -- Soap Opera -- Journeys to Six Lands -- Clocking the World on Cue: The Chronogram for 2001 -- One-Way Mirror.
- ISBN
- 1564783219 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2002073509
- OCLC
- 50004468
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library