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Great Days_The Death of Edward Lear

唐纳德·巴塞尔姆
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The Death of Edward Lear

The death of Edward Lear took place on a Sunday morning in May 1888. Invitations were sent out well in advance. The invitations read:

Mr. Edward LEAR

Nonsense Writer and Landscape Painter

Requests the Honor of Your Presence

On the Occasion of His DEMISE.

San Remo 2:20 a.m.

The 29th of May Please reply

One can imagine the feelings of the recipients. Our dear friend! is preparing to depart! and such-like. Mr. Lear! who has given us so much pleasure! and such-like. On the other hand, his years were considered. Mr. Lear! who must be, now let me see. . . And there was a good deal of, I remember the first time I (dipped into) (was seized by). . . But on the whole, Mr. Lears acquaintances approached the occasion with a mixture of solemnity and practicalness, perhaps remembering the words of Lears great friend, Tennyson:

Old men must die,

or the world would grow mouldy

and:

For men may come and men may go,

But I go on forever.

People prepared to attend the death of Edward Lear as they might have for a day in the country. Picnic baskets were packed (for it would be wrong to expect too much of Mr. Lears hospitality, under the circumstances); bottles of wine were wrapped in white napkins. Toys were chosen for the children. There were debates as to whether the dog ought to be taken or left behind. (Some of the dogs actually present at the death of Edward Lear could not restrain themselves; they frolicked about the dying mans chamber, tugged at the bedclothes, and made such nuisances of themselves that they had to be removed from the room.)

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作品简介：

Donald Barthelme's new book of stories, Great Days, is perhaps most notable for the presence of seven formally related dialogues, The Crisis, The Apology, The New Music, Morning, On the Steps of the Conservatory, The Leap, and Great Days, which introduce a new aspect of his work. In these restless, possibility-haunted colloquies, stripped of everything save voices, changing pairs of women and pairs of men range an emotional terrain whose poles are hope and memory. Extravagant, profane, and comic, the dialogues are a considerable achievement, testing the possibilities of form and extending our engagement with the world.

In other stories Barthelme explores the tragic, ambiguous relationship between Cortés and Montezuma, uncovers units of the Swedish army on maneuvers in Manhattan, offers a country-music version of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, describes a heroic cutting contest between a king of jazz and a young challenger, and provides an account of a group of zombies out on a wife-buying expedition.

As Philip Stevick wrote in The Nation, Donald Barthelme's stories stand as touchstones for narrative art of the last two decades. Great Days is an important addition to an already impressive body of work.

作者:唐纳德·巴塞尔姆

标签:Great Days唐纳德·巴塞尔姆

《Great Days》最热门章节：
1、Great Days2、The Leap3、On the Steps of the Conservatory4、Morning5、The Zombies6、Concerning the Bodyguard7、The Death of Edward Lear8、The Abduction from the Seraglio9、Tales of the Swedish Army10、Belief
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