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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778238803321

Autore

Tarnavsʹkyĭ I͡Uriĭ

Titolo

Like blood in water [[electronic resource] /] / Yuriy Tarnawsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, AL, : FC2, c2007

ISBN

1-57366-802-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

American fiction

American literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Screaming -- Former pianist Fitipaldo -- The joys and sorrows of R. York -- Pavarotti-Agamemnon -- Surgery.

Sommario/riassunto

A surrealist account of the creative and descriptive arts.  In these five surrealist collages, waking life continually gives way before the onslaught of dreams. Yuriy Tarnawsky has condensed the vastness of scope typical of novels into shorter fragments-mini-novels-that require the reader's active participation. The tone is a balance of dead-pan comedy and solemn gothic, sometimes a near-parody of wide-eyed candor, sometimes recounting utterly mad or barely conceivable states of affairs.A candidate for major surgery struggles unsuccessfully to avoid it. Two strang