Tatlin! (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Guy Davenport
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: France or French people, Painting or painters, Italy or Italians, Netherlands or Dutch people, Russia or Russian people, Caves
- Locales: Europe
Tatlin! is the collection of short stories that made Davenport one of the most admired and studied fiction writers in modern American literature. Most of the reviewers who commented on the volume when it appeared admitted that they had seen nothing like these highly sophisticated and polished stories, either in subject matter or technique. The stories range from the title piece, about the founder of Constructivism and Russian Formalism, to a story about young boys who stumble on the Paleolithic cave paintings of Lascaux, France, in “Robot,” and move through the deep Greek...
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