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A Table of Green Fields includes ten stories, variously about the painter Henry Scott Tuke, the mathematician James Joseph Sylvester, Kafka, Thoreau, along with some imaginary Frenchmen and Scandinavians, among others. Calculating the infinite in the finite, tracing geometries of desire, placing the obdurate world in an uncustomary light, each of these stories opens out its own world. Without giving up the plot or character of the traditional short story, Guy Davenport's inventions are complex events in which ideas and cultural history are a kind of music to which the characters dance. Despite the fractal, syncopated collage of his narrative style, Davenport's prose is objective, terse, and transparent. A constant theme in this book is the transmission of the past as an imaginative act; hence the title, Falstaff's dying vision of a table of green fields," probably a mishearing of his recitation of the Twenty-third Psalm, corrected by editors to "he babbled of green fields," a symbol of all fiction, an art that must be exact about the uncertain. " Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Throughout A Table of Green Fields I would pause and admire the images and especially the erudition which yielded such pleasure. Davenport scored well on his classification as an academic author. There are traces of ivy in all his stories and sperm in most of these. I remain curious as to whether his other collections are similarly bound in theme and specifics of action. I allude here to the frequency of male tandem masturbation which almost dominates the tome.
Kafka, Thoreau, Toke and T. E. Lawrence are brought to visibility within these stories. There is little or no danger of caricature. Davenport approaches each with modest eye.
This is a humble work yet loaded with a scholar's detail. ( )