Davenport, Guy, Jr. (Vol. 6) - Davenport, Guy, Jr. 1927–
Davenport, Guy, Jr. 1927–
Davenport is a short story writer, essayist, poet, editor, illustrator, translator of classical Greek, and teacher. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 33-36.)
This is the age of suspiciousness, of the psychological backward glance, of the writer who figures in his own fiction as an implicated character or a puppeteer protagonist, not so much through some access of honesty as through an increased awareness of what imagination entails.
Into this development, the fictions of Guy Davenport congruously fit. Davenport has a sophisticated, erudite mind which he isn't ashamed to show, even to show off. These six stories [in Tatlin!] better dubbed assemblies or constructions or narrative editorials, range far and wide into literature and culture, raising the ghosts of an interesting team: Herakleitos; the Dutch philosopher Adriaan van Hovendaal; Franz Kafka and Max Brod; the Abbe Breuil, the discoverer of...
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