A world of order and light: The fiction of John Gardner / Gregory L Morris
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: United States of America.: University of Georgia Press , 1984Edition: 1.edDescription: 259p.: 23cmISBN: 0820306967Subject(s): LITERATURA -- FICCIÓNDDC classification: 813.54 Summary: No one knew better the words fragility than John Gardener. He realized that existence is a delicate balance between calm and chaos, between the secure and the accidental. There were no guarantees in life, only precarious truces. Gardner’s private peace with the universe was shattered the afternoon of September 14, 1982, as he rounded a curve in a Pennsylvania mountain road near his home in surely there was the ground gives way in the depths of a forest. While death left Gardner’s life in fragments a marriage just four days from celebration ,a major novel laboring towards completion time did allow his work to come, in an ironic sort of way, full circle .Both his first published novel and as their protagonist professors of philosophy, men who physically symbolized Gardner’s trademark as a philosophy. Novelist. Both novels were also critical failures, unfortunate beginnings an ends to Garners artistic life, the worth of all that came in between barely compensating for the deprived sense of promise from what might have been.Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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No one knew better the words fragility than John Gardener. He realized that existence is a delicate balance between calm and chaos, between the secure and the accidental. There were no guarantees in life, only precarious truces. Gardner’s private peace with the universe was shattered the afternoon of September 14, 1982, as he rounded a curve in a Pennsylvania mountain road near his home in surely there was the ground gives way in the depths of a forest.
While death left Gardner’s life in fragments a marriage just four days from celebration ,a major novel laboring towards completion time did allow his work to come, in an ironic sort of way, full circle .Both his first published novel and as their protagonist professors of philosophy, men who physically symbolized Gardner’s trademark as a philosophy. Novelist. Both novels were also critical failures, unfortunate beginnings an ends to Garners artistic life, the worth of all that came in between barely compensating for the deprived sense of promise from what might have been.
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