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The Cream Of The Jest (Wildside Fantasy)
James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. He worked from 1898 to 1900 as a newpaper reporter in New York City, but returned to Richmond in 1901, where he worked several months on the staff of the Richmond News. In 1902, seven of his first stories appeared in national magazines and over the next decade he wrote many short ...more
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by Wildside Press
(first published 1917)
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If the rest of this novel had been anything like the first 30 pages, 4 stars, easily.
In those first 30 (or so) pages, Cabell's subject is perfectly matched to his language, perfectly matched to the plot, etc., and the whole is so odd and indefinably off it is like the sword and sorcery novel that Philip K. Dick never wrote.
And then comes the 220 pages that follow. The language is like an American Idol audition, tin ear and cracked high notes. And what is behind that lang...more
In those first 30 (or so) pages, Cabell's subject is perfectly matched to his language, perfectly matched to the plot, etc., and the whole is so odd and indefinably off it is like the sword and sorcery novel that Philip K. Dick never wrote.
And then comes the 220 pages that follow. The language is like an American Idol audition, tin ear and cracked high notes. And what is behind that lang...more
Not PC in the Academe, but I've always thought the Commedia was written by a dream with the pseudonym Dante...
Cabell considers themes that our Inklings did. And just perhaps informed them as the first publish date was 1917.
Some themes:
Life is a dream poorly understood and expressed. Humankind never gets in direct touch with reality except in the very present moment.
Plato's Cave comes to mind here.
Art, as we in imago dei the Artist wills, is our eternity. All is seen a...more
Cabell considers themes that our Inklings did. And just perhaps informed them as the first publish date was 1917.
Some themes:
Life is a dream poorly understood and expressed. Humankind never gets in direct touch with reality except in the very present moment.
Plato's Cave comes to mind here.
Art, as we in imago dei the Artist wills, is our eternity. All is seen a...more
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