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The Medusa Frequency: Penguin Modern Classics

Autor Russell Hoban
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 apr 2021
'Sparkles with classical allusions and a wisecracking humour ... it is pure joy'Daily Telegraph

It all begins the night a leaflet comes through the door of unsuccessful novelist Herman Orff, promising a magical cure for writer's block. The strange treatment plunges him into a hallucinatory London dreamworld populated by figures mythical and real: a severed talking head, Vermeer's girl with a pearl earring, his lost love Luise and, beneath it all, the Kraken awaiting. As Herman will discover, creating art is a tough business.

'One of his most accessibly entertaining books'The Times

'Short, smart and fizzy, the novel seeks out the roots of creativity with none of the solemnity that phrase implies'New Statesman

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241485729
ISBN-10: 024148572X
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 130 x 197 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

On his death in 2011,The TimesdescribedRussell Hobanas 'perhaps the most consistently strange writer of the late 20th century'. He thought and wrote in an extraordinary range of genres, becoming first a bestselling writer of children's books, particularly the immortalFrancesstories and his first novel,The Mouse and His Child(1968). After its publication he continued to write for children (most notably perhaps theCaptain Najorkbooks with Quentin Blake andThe Marzipan Pig), but focussed most of his energies on a sequence of wonderful novels, which began withThe Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz(1973) and ended withAngelica Lost and Found(2010). He also wrote the libretto for Harrison Birtwistle's operaThe Second Mrs Kong(1994).

His novels were wildly various, but share his obsession with objects, animals, specific works of art and pieces of music, his love of words and sense of humour. Penguin Modern Classics publishes his first eight novels:The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz,Kleinzeit,Turtle Diary,Riddley Walker,Pilgermann,The Medusa Frequency,FremderandMr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer.

Recenzii

Short, smart and fizzy, the novel seeks out the roots of creativity with none of the solemnity that phrase implies.
Entirely captivating.
Worth rejoicing in ... a banquet of whimsical delights. Each Russell Hoban book is surprising ... but you also know what you're getting, which is curiosity, wonder and a world-encompassing empathy.