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VERBIVORACIOUSPRESS
07 / 2016
9789811101182
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Who is Marvin Cohen? Brooklyn-born New Yorker Marvin Cohen published numerous surreal and whimsical fictions in books and magazines fromá1967 to 1982. This anthology showcases the two modes of Cohen&rsquo,s writing: short &lsquo,dialogues&rsquo, operating in the manner of an Ionesco or Beckett script by inverting language with an eschatological hopelessness while revelling, rather than despairing, in life&rsquo,s absurdity, and longer stories displaying Cohen&rsquo,s unique style and knack for shaping language in novel ways: his repetitions, random exclamations, and bestowing on abstract nouns abstract qualities. Cohen has an ear for the music of the absurd on a par with Donald Barthelme, mixing the flip whimsy, astute and wry observation, and verbal heft, with a fondness for paradoxes and intellectual riddles. His incessant probing of the weird crevices of existence makes reading Cohen a perpetual pleasure. This anthology collects Cohen&rsquo,s four volumes of short fiction. &ldquo,His stories are bursting with inventiveness, and have a way of posing awkward questions&mdash,this, when most of the world&rsquo,s story writers are content with dry observation, or mere character assassination.&rdquo, &mdash, The Times Literary Supplement

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