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Light Shining Out of Darkness
And Other Stories
Langbeschreibung
Like the paintings of Jan Vermeer and Edward Hopper, Hugh Hood's short fiction looks hard at what some might call the surface of things. Like the finely wrought realism of those canvases, Hood's super-realist style doesn't just see-it sees into. While his early publications prompted his reputation as an originator of Canadian modernism, Hood's work taken as a whole reveals a philosophy far older: that of the allegorist. Like Dante's pilgrim, Hood's narrator finds spiritual truths in recognizable forms, affirming again and again the imagination's capacity for penetrating insight and the transcendental potential of art. As he wrote in 1971, "I have at all times endeavoured to look steadily at my subjects. I hope my gaze has helped to light them up."
Hugh Hood (1928-2000) was a Canadian novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and university professor. Hood wrote 32 books: 17 novels, including the 12-volume New Age novel sequence (influenced by Marcel Proust and Anthony Powell), several volumes of short fiction, and 5 of nonfiction. He taught English literature at the Université de Montréal. In the early 1970s he and fellow authors Clark Blaise, Raymond Fraser, John Metcalf, and Ray Smith formed the well-known Montreal Story Tellers Fiction Performance Group, which popularized the public reading of fiction in Canada. In 1988, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
ISBN-13:
9781771961899
Veröffentl:
2018
Seiten:
250
Autor:
Hugh Hood
Serie:
ReSet
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
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