02758nam 2200517 450 991078778000332120230828201634.01-77558-517-41-86940-628-11-77558-030-X(CKB)2670000000491951(EBL)1411747(SSID)ssj0001060667(PQKBManifestationID)11985602(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001060667(PQKBWorkID)11087582(PQKB)10703864(MiAaPQ)EBC1557345(EXLCZ)99267000000049195120061019h20062006 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBrief lives /Chris PriceAuckland, N.Z. :Auckland University Press,2006.©20061 online resource (154 p.)"An eccentric collection of biographical anecdotes and fictional vignettes ... a meditation on mortality"--Inner fold of cover.1-86940-363-0 Includes bibliographical references.Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Epigraph; BRIEF LIVES; AFTER THE PARTY; THE AGE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANNE CARSON; ANTHONY; BIOGRAPHICAL FALLACIES; CALM; COLLECTOR; ON COMPOSITION; CREATION STORIES; DIONYSIAN; DISPOSABLE; DREAM LIFE; EVE'S DAUGHTER; THE FALLEN; FAMILY WISDOM; FIRE AND WATER; HARRY PARTCH; HILDEGARD OF BINGEN; HOROLOGIST; JESUS OF MONTPARNASSE; LOTT'S MOTHER; MAX; THE NEXT DAY; NOTEBOOK; OTHER DICTIONARIES; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PETRARCH'S BONES; PRAYER WHEEL; REHABILITATION; THE SERPENT LECTURES; SINGAPORE; SPECIMEN JAR; THE UNHAPPINESS OF HOLIDAYS; [UNTITLED]VXYLOTHÈQUE; ZOOPRAXISCOPE; VARIABLE STARS; VARIABLE STARS; Acknowledgements; Sources; Quotes; CopyrightBrief Lives is an eccentric collection of biographical anecdotes and fictional vignettes in which famous figures such as Goethe, Petrarch and Antonin Artaud rub shoulders with impecunious aristocrats, actors and art historians as well as a range of fictional characters caught amid the daily chaos of their lives. Here a dead man recounts his experiences as a Jesus impersonator. A wife reflects on the unhappiness of holidays. A doctor conducts altitude experiments on prisoners. Lott loses his mother's ashes in Amsterdam, and Nietzsche dances naked round a stove in Turin. These small, curiouNew Zealand literatureNew Zealand literature.828.307Price Chris1962-1487421MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787780003321Brief lives3707274UNINA