Splendide-Hôtel Writingby Gilbert Sorrentino Publication Date: 07 01 1984 ISBN: 9781564782786 Arthur Rimbaud's invented "Splendide Hotel," "built in the chaos of ice and of the polar night," provides the occasion for Sorrentino's imaginative meditation on letters and language. Each chapter serves as an opportunity for the author to expand on thoughts and images suggested by a letter of the alphabet, as well as to reflect upon the workings of the imagination, particularly in
to play chess and prevent catastrophes
and comical inventiveness
blending memoir
and reads like a closely observed novel of manners – then and now
an honest and faithful record of breakage and distress at a time when dysfunction—personal
Prominent Moscow poet Evgeny Bunimovich selected representative work from forty-four living Russian poets born after 1945 to be translated and published in this bilingual edition
in back alleys and docks
She lives in Thessaloniki
Her postmodern classic
Roubaud here narrates his difficulties both personal and pedagogical
several mysteries
or technological