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DARK HORSEY SAYS- Reprinted a number of times since 1988. For about a year Mathews followed Staenhal's dictum,"twenty lines a day, genius or not."Part journal, part biography, part writer's manual, & part genius definitely. Begun as an exercise, themes & problems unintendedly invade & finally grip the work & the reader. An amazing book.Harry Mathews is one of the Ou Li Po masters (along with friend Georges Perec, Calvino, Raymond Queneau & others). Fabulously amusing & bizarro novelist, inventive prose stylist & poet. Other books include, memorably, The Way Home, The Conversions, Singular Pleasures, & Selected Declarations of Dependence. |
