Telling It Again and Again Russian Federation

Telling It Again and Again Russian FederationHow do writers and filmmakers use repetition? While repetition is useful when accenting an idea, in this original and thought provoking book, Bruce F. Kawin argues it serves a more important function as a manipulator of our sense of time and the timeless. Brilliantly juxtaposing the aesthetics of novelty against those of repetition, Kawin shows how the connections and rhythm of repetition offer revelations about literature and film, nature and memory,

and the theater

but his love for literature and how it shaped his life to come

Raymond Roussel (1877-1933)

and the critic James Wood wrote

This play of coincidences sets the stage for Orelli's encyclopedic portrait of European culture under Nazism

sardonic prose brims over with inventiveness

and by the inherent difficulties of his profession

modern readers

Ann Quin (1936-1973) was one of the great unsung geniuses of 20th century British fiction

accompanied by great beauty and compassion

a nonfiction account of West's deaf and brain-damaged daughter Mandy at age eight

his second novel—written in the '50s and never before published—Nicholas Mosley weighs questions of responsibility and sacrifice against those of love and earthly desire