The World Within the Word: Essays
Author(s): William H. Gass
The World Within the Word, Gass's second published volume of criticism, is a landmark collection discussing Valery, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner, suicide, "art and order," and the transformation of language into poetry and fiction. Revelatory and gorgeous, by turns humorous and devastating, it stands among Gass's best and most provocative books. First published by Knopf in 1978, first edition from Dalkey Archive Press.
General Information
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- : Dalkey Archive Press
- : Dalkey Archive Press
- : 0.454
- : 01 June 2014
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 June 2014
- : books
Other Specifications
- : William H. Gass
- : Paperback
- : 814.54
- : 352
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Mr. Gass is an ironist of the highest caliber... he is an improbable eminence grise of American letters, festooned with accolades; if there is any justice in the world he will one day get his Nobel prize... As an essayist, his prose is gorgeously musical, ticking along smoothly as if measured out by metronome. He composes miniature fugues and conducts cadenzas while meandering around his subjects... -- Vladislav Davidzon The New York Observer The finest prose stylist in America. -- Steven Moore Washington Post
William H. Gass is the author of four novels -- Omensetter's Luck, Willie Masters' Lonely Wife, The Tunnel, and Middle C -- as well as two volumes of short stories and eight collections of essays. Gass was a professor of philosophy at Washington University from 1966--2000, and Director of the International Writers Center from 1990 until 2000. He has been the recipient of many awards, including the Pen-Nabokov Lifetime Achievement Award, the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, and National Book Critics Circle Awards for Criticism in 1985, 1996, and 2003, among others.
