The Cardiff Team: Ten Stories
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Guy Davenport's story collection A Table of Green Fields (New Directions, 1993) was praised for its amazing artistry and "stratospheric" literary intelligence ( Kirkus Reviews ). As The Washington Post noted, "It draws one in with its austere, beautifully formal sentences, its rich pattern of memory." In Davenport's follow-up collection, The Cardiff Team , the stories continue in this vein, their texts a wondrous collage of persons, events, and ideas from cultural history. The central theme is that of tribeless people joining, or trying to join, a team, a tribe, or a society. In "The Messengers," Franz Kafka visits the Jungborn Health Spa in the Harz mountains and tries to feel comfortable in his own skin. In "Boys Smell Like Oranges," a soccer team of boys from Henry de Montherlant's Les Olympiques is its own contained tribe. The Cardiff Team perfectly displays Guy Davenport's illustrious prose and his audacity; confirming The New Yorker 's assertion that his is "among the very few, truly original voices now audible in American letters."
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0811213358
ISBN13:9780811213356
Release Date:November 1996
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Length:168 Pages
Weight:0.77 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.6" x 8.2"
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