The Fisher King - 9780226677002
Un libro in lingua di Anthony Powell edito da Univ of Chicago Pr, 2004
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Aboard the Alecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Beals imagines Henchman to be the reembodiment of one of the most mysterious Arthurian legends, the Fisher King--the maimed and impotent ruler of a barren country of whom Perceval failed to ask the right questions. A myth with many permutations--and a blurred borderland between them--the Fisher King legend dovetails the various explanations Powell offers from his competing narrators as to why a talented young dancer would forsake her art to care for a feeble older man.
Ostensibly a novel about gossip on a cruise ship, The Fisher King is much more: a highly stylized narrative infused with Greek mythology, legend, and satire.
Ostensibly a novel about gossip on a cruise ship, The Fisher King is much more: a highly stylized narrative infused with Greek mythology, legend, and satire.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Fisher King
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Anthony Powell
- Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
- Collana: Univ of Chicago Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 15 Agosto '04
- Genere: FICTION
- Argomenti : People with disabilities Fiction Photographers Fiction Women dancers Fiction
- Pagine: 256
- Dimensioni mm: 196 x 127 x 12
- ISBN-10: 0226677001
- EAN-13: 9780226677002