Guy Davenport Livres

Forty essays on history, art, and literature from one of the most incisive, and most exhilarating, critical minds of the twentieth century. Guy Davenport was perhaps the last great American polymath. He provided links between art and literature, music and sculpture, modernist poets and classic philosophers, the past and present--and pretty much everything in between. Not only had Davenport seemingly read (and often translated from the original languages) everything in print, he also had the ability, expressed with unalloyed enthusiasm, to draw connections between how cultural synapses make, define, and reflect our civilization. In this collection, Guy Davenport serves as the reader's guide through history and literature, pointing out the values and avenues of thought that have shaped our ideas and our thinking. In these forty essays we find fresh thinking on Greek culture, Whitman, Spinoza, Wittgenstein, Melville, Tolkien, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Charles Olson, Marianne Moore, Eudora Welty, Lois Zukovsky, and many others. Each essay is a tour of the history of ideas and imagination, written with wit and startling erudition.

A set of meditations, written over several years, concerning the painting of Balthus and "its kinship with the poetry of Rilke (Balthus's childhood mentor), with Picasso and others

Exploring the intersections of art, philosophy, and literature, this collection of stories weaves together narratives that often include historical figures and settings. Each tale invites readers to reflect on profound themes and the influence of the past, creating a rich tapestry of thought-provoking insights and imaginative storytelling.

Avram Davidson was one of the great original American writers of this century. He was literate, erudite, cranky, Jewish, wildly creative, and sold most of his short stories to genre pulp magazines. Here are thirty-eight of the best: all the award-winners and nominees and best-of honored stories, with introductions by such notable authors as Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson, Peter S. Beagle, Thomas M. Disch, Gene Wolfe, Poul Anderson, Guy Davenport, Gregory Benford, Alan Dean Foster, and dozens of others, plus introductions and afterwords by Grania Davis, Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison, and Ray Bradbury.

Americký básník, esejista, překladatel a literární historik Ezra Pound (1885–1972) se poprvé objevil v přímořském letovisku Rapallu poblíž Janova v roce 1924. Vedle Benátek a krátké epizody na tyrolském zámku jeho dcery Mary de Rachewiltz Brunnenburg bylo Rapallo jeho nejoblíbenějším místem v Itálii. Vzpomínkové texty a esejistické črty obsažené v tomto svazku přinášejí dvě výjimečná svědectví o závěrečném údobí Poundova života. Profesor Janovské univerzity Massimo Bacigalupo se s básníkem seznámil prostřednictvím svého otce, který Pounda léčil. Americký básník, kritik, esejista a malíř Guy Davenport navštěvoval Pounda v nemocnici svaté Alžběty ve Washingtonu a v próze Ithaka zachytil jedno ze setkání s ním a jeho družkou, houslistkou Olgou Rudgeovou, v Rapallu. Knihu doplňují verše Massima Bacigalupa vztahující se k Poundovi a fotografie rapallských míst spojených s autorem Cantos, s tvůrcem, jehož „duch byl ze zázračně krásného krystalu“ (Michel Butor). Z angličtiny přeložil a úvodním esejem doprovodil Petr Mikeš, autorem doslovu je Jan Suk.