Brief lives
by Price, Chris
Brief Lives is an eccentric collection of biographical anecdotes and fictional vignettes in which famous figures such as Goethe, Petrarch and Antonin Artaud rub shoulders with impecunious aristocrats, actors and art historians as well as a range of fictional characters caught amid the daily chaos of their lives. Here a dead man recounts his experiences as a Jesus impersonator. A wife reflects on the unhappiness of holidays. A doctor conducts altitude experiments on prisoners. Lott loses his mot…
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- Full title :Brief lives / Chris Price.
Summary
Brief Lives is an eccentric collection of biographical anecdotes and fictional vignettes in which famous figures such as Goethe, Petrarch and Antonin Artaud rub shoulders with impecunious aristocrats, actors and art historians as well as a range of fictional characters caught amid the daily chaos of their lives. Here a dead man recounts his experiences as a Jesus impersonator. A wife reflects on the unhappiness of holidays. A doctor conducts altitude experiments on prisoners. Lott loses his mother's ashes in Amsterdam, and Nietzsche dances naked round a stove in Turin. These small, curiou.
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- Publication Date:2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Auckland University Press
- Place of Publication:Auckland, N.Z
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2006.
Notes
"An eccentric collection of biographical anecdotes and fictional vignettes ... a meditation on mortality"--Inner fold of cover
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (158 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781775585176, 1775585174, 9781775580300, 177558030X, 1869406281, 9781869406288
- oclc:ocn872116507
- LC Classification:PR9639.4.P75
- Dewey Decimal:828.307
Table of Contents
Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Epigraph; BRIEF LIVES; AFTER THE PARTY; THE AGE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANNE CARSON; ANTHONY; BIOGRAPHICAL FALLACIES; CALM; COLLECTOR; ON COMPOSITION; CREATION STORIES; DIONYSIAN; DISPOSABLE; DREAM LIFE; EVE'S DAUGHTER; THE FALLEN; FAMILY WISDOM; FIRE AND WATER; HARRY PARTCH; HILDEGARD OF BINGEN; HOROLOGIST; JESUS OF MONTPARNASSE; LOTT'S MOTHER; MAX; THE NEXT DAY; NOTEBOOK; OTHER DICTIONARIES; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PETRARCH'S BONES; PRAYER WHEEL; REHABILITATION; THE SERPENT LECTURES; SINGAPORE; SPECIMEN JAR; THE UNHAPPINESS OF HOLIDAYS; [UNTITLED]
VXYLOTHÈQUE; ZOOPRAXISCOPE; VARIABLE STARS; VARIABLE STARS; Acknowledgements; Sources; Quotes; Copyright
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