Evan S. Connell is an author who adheres to established methods, both in writing and communication. His extensive body of work, spanning fiction, poetry, and essays, is characterized by a unique approach to both form and content. Connell eschews modern technology, favoring traditional methods that are reflected in his literary style. His American classics, often infused with anecdotal depth, explore the complexities of human nature and society.
Mrs Bridge, an unremarkable and conservative housewife in Kansas City, has three children and a kindly lawyer husband. She spends her time with shopping, going to bridge parties and bringing up her children to be pleasant, clean and have nice manners.
Goyas vielseitiges Talent ruft bei Kritikern widersprüchliche Reaktionen hervor. Er war ein Meister, dessen Bild des Saturns, der den blutigen Körper seines Sohnes verschlingt, ebenso unvergesslich ist wie die einzigartige Darstellung des sanften Lichts in dem weißen Satin-Rock der Gräfin. Die meisten Kritiker sind sich einig, dass Goya die westliche Kunst für immer verändert hat, wobei sein Einfluss unterschiedlich interpretiert wird. Degas beklagte sich beispielsweise, dass er durch Goya dazu verurteilt sei, Hausfrauen in der Badewanne zu malen. Dieser unberechenbare Künstler ist ein hervorragendes Thema für den Autor. Mit berühmtem Witz, sarkastischer Gelehrsamkeit und anregender Forschung erweckt er den Hofmaler und seine grausame Zeit zum Leben: Spanien in den Fängen der Inquisition. Connell bietet zahlreiche Details und komische Merkmale stark exzentrischer Figuren – Herzöge, Herzoginnen, die königliche Familie, Politiker und Künstler – die eine schamlose und unverbesserliche Ansammlung von Sündern bilden. Bei der Erkundung von Goyas Karriere untersucht er die Meinungen anderer über zwei Jahrhunderte hinweg – vom Schock Paul Claudels bis zu Baudelaires Bemerkung, dass er die schwarze Magie unserer Zivilisation malte. Connell hat Goya, seine Kunst und seine Zeit mit äußerster Originalität und reicher Phantasie heraufbeschworen.
A new collection of essays by the author of Mrs. Bridge and Son of a Morning Star covers a wide range of topics from the Anasazi Indians of the desert Southwest to explorer Marco Polo to seminal advances in the fields of astronomy, archaeology, anthropology, and linguistics. 25,000 first printing.
On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors - Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho - converged on a grassy ridge above the valley of Montana's Little Bighorn River. On the ridge five companies of United States cavalry - 262 soldiers, comprising officers and troopers - fought desperately but hopelessly. When the guns fell silent, no soldier - including their commanding officer, Lt Col. George Armstrong Custer - had survived. Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history - 130 years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates has described as 'one of our most interesting and intelligent American writers', wrote what continues to be the most reliable - and compulsively readable - account of the subject. Connell makes good use of his research and novelist's eye for story and detail to re-create the heroism, foolishness and savagery of this crucial chapter in the history of the West.
The classic novel about a repressed upper-middle-class husband in the American Midwest, by a New York Times bestselling and Man Booker Prize winning author. Walter Bridge is an ambitious Kansas City lawyer who redoubles his efforts and time at the office whenever he senses that his family needs something--even when what they need is more of him and less of his money. Affluence, material assets, and comforts create a cocoon of respectability that cloaks the void within--not the skeleton in the closet but a black hole swallowing the whole household. Together with its companion, Mrs. Bridge , this novel is a classic portrait of a man, a marriage, and the manners and mores of a particular social class in the first half of twentieth-century America. "A small masterpiece." --Joyce Carol Oates "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge are forever human, forever vulnerable, forever pitiable. In spare, whimsical, ironic prose, Connell exposes each and every one of their wrinkles and then, in the end, offers them to us as human beings to be cherished." -- The Washington Post
