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Book by Codrescu, Andrei
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Writer and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu was working on a film exploring life along the Mississippi, when Katrina slammed into his hometown. After hosting scores of refugees in his Baton Rouge home, Codrescu released his essay collection New Orleans Mon Amour, becoming one of the many important voices celebrating New Orleans culture, recording its devastation, and awakening America's conscience.
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This collection of stories by the Romanian-born poet flies in the face of current literary trends. The language is lush, and the content has a political edge. The title story is a dialogue between the author's European and American selves. "A Bar in Brooklyn," the most lucid of these surreal pieces, touches on fractured identity and sexual confusion. Listeners to National Public Radio know that Codrescu plays fast and loose with the English language, blending non sequiturs with Monty Python-like flights of fancy. Frequently, though, Monsieur Teste in America is as exasperating as it is clever. These story-meditations border on the sophomoric with lines like, "The infinite . . . is a great influence on unfinished sentences." One yearns for the lyrical brevity of the poet's radio essays. In those, his imagination runs wild; here it often runs amok. Still, a playful mind will read, "I'm from Venus, can you spare a lemon?" and enjoy.
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- PublisherCoffee House Press
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0918273323
- ISBN 13 9780918273321
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages138
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Monsieur Teste in America & other Instances of Realism, Short Stories
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Monsieur Teste in America (short stories) + Belligerence (poems)
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 2 Codrescu books from Coffee House Press, sold together & unread, in Near Fine condition. "The two novellas and six short stories in MONSIEUR TESTE IN AMERICA are explorations along and across the lines of fictional gender. Monsieur Teste of the title story is a mythical creature based loosely on Paul Valery's character by the same name. He is the narrator's old European 'head' or 'testes,' coming to the aid of a confused emigrant, a new American. Between them stands both a (literal and metaphorical) ocean of difference, and a female character named Ellen who is an elemental and powerful force. In the second novella, 'Samba de Los Agentes,' the emigrant narrator lives with his sisters and mother in a little vortex of madness from which he emerges only to kill 'agents,' or 'people who mediate your reality for you.' These mysterious instances of 'ontological realism' are, like much of Codrescu's other work, playful but profound inquiries into our social, sexual and existential roles." [publisher copy] Near Fine, slightly faded & shopworn cover w/French flaps. + BELLIGERENCE (1991) Bright, clean & tight paperback in illustrated wraps featuring cover art by Francesco Clemente, 80pp."Renewing the tradition of the poet as a social critic, BELLIGERENCE bristles with insight into the moral, sexual and political taboos of our day." Near Fine+ poetry chapbook. Both books have square & tight bindings w/no creases in spines. Seller Inventory # RUB2518
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