Stories, Fables & Other Diversions

Title

en_US Stories, Fables & Other Diversions

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Howard Nemerov

Creator

en_US Nemerov, Howard See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T20:12:02Z

en_US 2003-01

en_US 1971

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:12:02Z

Date Issued

en_US 1971

Abstract

en_US There are eleven short stories here. I have read three. Nemerov is better remembered as a poet, I believe, and these are apparently sallies into another form. It is a stretch of my imagination, at least, to call what I have read fables. The Twelve and the One reports on an eerie visit of twelve Jews from Trent to the Pope to confront him with Christian injustice. Nemerov's story suggests, I believe, how unjust Christians have been but also how difficult it is to set right a wrong done so long ago. One has only impotent words. The Executive offers an encounter between a supermarket manager and a somewhat incompetent worker. A berating of the latter by the former turns into an apotheosis, but the manager fires the worker a week later. There is something critical and even cynical in Nemerov's satire, I think. The Idea of a University is a salvo against the inhumanity of what universities have become. This university includes a model slum and a brainwashing center: all for research purposes, of course!

Identifier

en_US 7866 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83117

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Godine

en_US Boston, MA

Subject

en_US PS3527.E5 S8 1971 See all items with this value

en_US Howard Nemerov See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole