Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.
|
Cargando... Last Stories and Other Stories (2014)por William T. Vollmann
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  weberam2 | Nov 24, 2017 |    ) augustgarage | Aug 28, 2016 |
 Mr. Vollmann’s new book, “Last Stories and Other Stories,” is his first volume of fiction since “Europe Central” (2005), which won a National Book Award. Not that he’s been idle. In the meantime, he’s published several dense slabs of nonfiction, including books about poverty, train-hopping and Japanese Noh theater, and a somewhat less slablike book about Copernicus. “Last Stories and Other Stories” is harrowing in the boredom it delivers, except for the bits, mostly toward the end, in which his male characters have slushy sex with rotting female corpses, some of them ghosts or vampires or supernatural beings of some other sort. (There’s the occasional delectable male carcass as well.) The book becomes a necrophiliac dreamscape: weedy crotches, wormy mouth cavities, sour nipples that pop off in a lover’s mouth. A more descriptive title for this book, to borrow the name of the White Stripes album, would have been “Icky Thump.”
"A collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death, and the erotic.... All these eerie tales, however far-flung their settings, all focus on the attempts of the living to avoid, control, or even seduce death."-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Debates activosNingunoCubiertas populares
 Google Books — Cargando...GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio: (3.83)
¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1
I have managed to rate each story separately...:
Part I: Escape: 4/5; Listening to the Shells: 4/5; The Leader: 4/5
Part II: The Treasure of Jovo Cirtovich: 4.5/5; The Madonna's Forehead: 3/5; Cat Goddess: 2/5; The Trench Ghost: 4/5
Part III: The Faithful Wife: 3.5/5; Doroteja: (3?/5); The Judge's Promise: 4/5
Part IV: June Eighteenth: 4/5; The Cemetery of the World: 3/5; Two Kings of Zinogava: 4/5
Part V: The White-Armed Lady: 2.5/5; Where Your Treasure Is: 3/5; The Memory Stone: 4/5; The Narrow Passage: 4/5; The Queen's Grave: 3/5: Star of Norway: 4/5
Part VI: The Forgetful Ghost: 4/5; The Ghost of Rainy Mountain: 3/5; The Camera Ghost: 2/5; The Cherry Tree Ghost: 3/5; Paper Ghosts: 3/5
Part VII: Widow's Weeds: 4/5; The Banquet of Death: 4/5; The Grave-House: 3.5/5; Defiance: 3/5; Too Late: 3/5
Part VIII: When We Were Seventeen: 4.3/5
Part IX: The Answer: 4/5; Goodbye: 4/5; And a Postscript: 4.5/5 (