ATCHLEY - Softcover

David Green (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 188644952X ISBN 13: 9781886449527

Publisher: Station Hill Press, 1998

Synopsis

David Green's novel furthers the contemporary dialogue between "deconstructionist" philosophy and "post-modern" fiction with an ingenious structure. It is difficult to tell whether a certain author of "Borgesian" fictions has invented the critic who writes about him, or if an ingenious critic has invented the author about whom he is a leading expert. Crisp critical prose alternates with lush narrative and descriptive rhetoric in this work of genuine inquiry into the relation between two styles of writing, two uses of mind, and two ways of being. Shades of Nabokov's Pale Fire...

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About the Author

David Green is a lecturer in the CAS Writing Program at Boston University, a novelist and literary critic. His special interests include Samuel Beckett and the Irish modernist poets. Before coming to Boston University, he taught at the University of Texas at San Antonio and St. Mary's University, also in San Antonio, as well as at universities in Spain and China. He is the recipient of the 1999 Sproat Award for the Outstanding Teacher of Writing at Boston University. His collection of short stories, The Garden of Love, was published late in 2009 by Pen & Anvil Press. His scholarly publications include studies of Samuel Beckett and the Irish poet Brian Coffey. David teaches in the CAS Core Curriculum and in the CAS Writing Program.

From the Back Cover

David Green's novel Atchley furthers the contemporary dialogue between "deconstructionist" philosophy and "postmodern" fiction with the propounding of an engaging literary enigma: Has a certain author of "Borgesian" fictions invented the critic who writes about him, or has an ingenious critic invented the author about whom he has become a leading expert? An author (named Atchley) has achieved critical acclaim by coupling an imagistically opulent narrative with a theoretical treatise on his own work. Now Atchley (this book) offers just such a narrative as well as a seemingly straightforward "deconstruction" of it. Does the book "actually" present Atchley's own auto-commentary? Is David Green Atchley? The work spins out these questions and others, only to have them dissolve, if not resolve, in the narrative itself, a work of singular lyrical intensity and haunting beauty. Taken as a whole, Atchley is a genuine inquiry into the relationship between two styles of writing, two uses of mind, and two ways of being.

Edition details

• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 188644952X
• ISBN 13: 9781886449527
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277