Self Portraits: Fictions
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Self Portraits: Fictions

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eBook - ePub

Self Portraits: Fictions

About this book

"An amazing, glittering, glowing, Proustian, Conradian, Borgesian, diamond-faceted, language-studded, myth-drowned Dream!"—Cynthia Ozick

These mysterious, interrelated stories create a portrait of the author's life, both real and imagined, as he appears in each tale variously as hero, bystander, artist, and ghost, yielding an enchanting autobiography of the imagination.
Fantasy and reality collide as the book's principal characters—two lovers—meet, part, and reunite, time and again, at different stages in life and in landscapes both familiar and exotic. Death appears as a genial waiter in a café across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art; talking circus elephants console a ringmaster for his unrequited love; a young boy barters with pirates for his grandmother's soul; and as a refrigerator begins spilling mini-glaciers into a couple's East Village apartment, a voyage to Antarctica commences on an icy schooner waiting for them in Tompkins Square Park.
Love, and its mystery, is at the core of these self portraits, but love also for art, for adventure, and for the passion of being alive.

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Information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9780393080766
Subtopic
Literature General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. ALSO BY FREDERIC TUTEN
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Prologue
  9. Voyagers
  10. Self Portrait with Sicily
  11. Self Portrait with Bullfight
  12. Self Portrait with Circus
  13. The Park Near Marienbad
  14. Self Portrait with Cheese
  15. Self Portrait with Icebergs
  16. Self Portrait with Beach
  17. The Park in Winter
  18. The Bar on Tompkins Square Park: Self Portrait with Blue Horse
  19. The Park on Fire
  20. The Ship at Anchor
  21. Acknowledgments
  22. About the Author