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To Those Gods Beyond

To Those Gods Beyond

Manganelli, Giorgio
Calvino, Italo
Walker, John

Hardcover

Literary Fiction

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ISBN10: 1900565811
ISBN13: 9781900565813
Publisher: Atlas Pr
Published: Aug 20 2019
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.90 Depth: 7.70
Language: English

This combination of two key works by the Italian avant-garde writer Giorgio Manganelli (1922-90) is a major addition to the small number of his works available in English. In the 1960s Manganelli was a member, along with Umberto Eco and Eduardo Sanguinetti, of the Gruppo 63 movement, and a close friend of Italo Calvino, who provides an enthusiastic foreword that describes To Those Gods Beyond (1972) as a heraldic bestiary that launches into a crescendo of variations on its main theme, the self-aggrandisement of a lucid megalomaniac. Perhaps the best known of his works included here, An Impossible Love, comprises an epistolary exchange between Hamlet and the Princess of Cleves conducted with a verbal catapult as the universes about them descend into oblivion. All is overseen by gods beyond whom an endless array of other gods lie in wait, intent on torment. Everything seemingly finite or known in our world becomes infinite and unknown.

The book is prefaced by Manganelli's notorious manifesto Literature as Deception (1967), in which he describes the literary object as something cynical, corrupt and devoted only to turning human suffering into exquisite figures of speech. This is a major new offering of work by this important writer, heralded by Calvino as an erudite acrobat who twirls around the trapeze of rhetoric above the timeless void of meaning.

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