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William Goyen's The House of Breath transmutes distant memories of boyhood East Texas into a mythic Künstlerroman, a glowing frieze upon which emerges a town beset by all of the ailings with which small provincial towns are typically afflicted with. Torturously written over the course of his late twenties and finally published at the venerable ...
The book is written as an ethereal address to the people and places the narrator remembers from his childhood in a small Texas town called Charity. More...
30 de jul. de 1999 · Paperback – July 30, 1999. by William Goyen (Author) 4.3 34 ratings. See all formats and editions. Readers can now rediscover one of William Goyen's most important works in this restoration of the original text. The House of Breath eschews traditional conventions of plot and character presentation.
11 de dic. de 2023 · The house of breath by William Goyen, 1986, Persea Books edition, in English - 1st Persea ed.
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William Goyen’s The House of Breath—a relatively short, lyric, novel—is a unique creation. Set in the early 20th century in small-town Texas, it portrays a family of misfits and an almost supernatural world in which a deep well and a river narrate two of the chapters, while other chapters are told in a different voice.
10 de oct. de 2014 · Goyen passes on traditional conventions of plot and character. The House of Breath is an address to the people and places the narrator remembers from his childhood in small Texas town, Charity. The novel is a meditation on the nature of identity and origins, memory, and time's annihilation of…
