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Under the Shadow, Paperback / softback Book

Under the Shadow Paperback / softback

Part of the American Literature (Dalkey Archive) series

Paperback / softback

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"Under the Shadow"?takes the form of fifty-nine brief sketches with simple nouns as titles.

These exquisite vignettes take place on a plane at once surreal, abstract, and ominous, describing a set of people and incidents derived largely from fragments of conversation and gossip gathered here and there.

They are reminiscent of Raymond Roussel's characters amid his inimitable ersatz pastorals, with tableaux both innocent and grotesque.

There is something ambiguous about these passages, something deliberately closed and dreamlike.

Many of them read like primal scenes of private pathologies; others are memories that, many years later, retain their power to haunt.

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