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The Fly-Truffler: A Novel has been added to your Cart. Gustaf Sobin is a poet and author of The Fly-Truffler. American-born, he has lived in Provence for nearly forty years.

The Fly-Truffler: A Novel has been added to your Cart. n erotic, telluric novel suffused on every page with the fragrances of truffles, almonds peaches, earth, and sex. - Eliot Weinberger. he experience it gives a reader is long and intense.

Truffles can be said to be an obsession if only for the prices that people will .

Truffles can be said to be an obsession if only for the prices that people will pay to have them. Caviar is an inexpensive snack by comparison, I don't know what other product of Mother Nature competes. This book by Gustaf Sobin reminded me of that first course: small, sensuous, exquisitely crafted, poetically expressive, unlike anything I had experienced before and celebratory of passages, of memory and moving on. "The Fly-Truffler" is Philippe Cabassac's elegy to his wife, Julieta, their intimate romance and her tragic death.

Philippe Cabassac has fly-truffled―the art of stalking the flies that lay their eggs directly over the truffles―every winter since childhood on his family estate in Provence

Philippe Cabassac has fly-truffled―the art of stalking the flies that lay their eggs directly over the truffles―every winter since childhood on his family estate in Provence. Since the death of his young wife, Julieta, the truffles have come to represent something far more than a delicacy for Cabassac's palate: they trigger an evocative sequence of dream visions in which he and his lost wife enter, on winter nights, a state of intimate and prolonged communion.

Gustaf Sobin is a poet and author of The Fly-Truffler. Philippe Cabassac has fly-truffled-the art of stalking the flies that lay their eggs directly over the truffles-every winter since childhood on his family estate in Provence

Gustaf Sobin is a poet and author of The Fly-Truffler. See all 4 brand new listings. Philippe Cabassac has fly-truffled-the art of stalking the flies that lay their eggs directly over the truffles-every winter since childhood on his family estate in Provence.

The Fly-Truffler book. The Fly-Truffler: A Novel. Der amerikanische Autor Gustaf Sobin nimmt diese kleine Novelle als Aufhänger, um die vom Aussterben bedrohte provencalische Kultur literarisch zu bewahren. 0393321797 (ISBN13: 9780393321791). Er erzählt die Geschichte des Philippe Cabassac, der sich in eine seiner Studentinnen verliebt. Als Julieta nach einer Fehlgeburt stirbt, verfällt auch Cabassac mehr und mehr.

The truffles he unearthed had already begun rotting from all the prolonged dampness

Find similar books Profile. The truffles he unearthed had already begun rotting from all the prolonged dampness. They were soft to the touch and rancid to the scent. He'd have to go on waiting. for the temperatures to drop and a fresh generation of truffles to ripen It wasn't until late December that Cabassac managed to uproot a perfectly healthy, pungent, hundred-and-fifty gram 'black diamond'.

Gustaf Sobin (November 15, 1935 – July 7, 2005) was an American-born .

Gustaf Sobin (November 15, 1935 – July 7, 2005) was an American-born poet and author. Originally from Boston, Sobin attended the Choate School, Brown University, and moved to Paris in 1962. After studies with Rene Char, Sobin developed a poetic style that relies heavily on assonance and consonance, as well as other methods of the sonic organization of speech. Among his works of fiction are the novels "The Fly Truffler" (about the art of truffle-hunting in Southern France), and "In Pursuit of a Vanishing Star", which is a chronicle of a brief period of Greta Garbo's early acting career. Selected bibliography.

The Fly–Truffler – A Novel.

Part travelogue, part cultural compendium, the poems move through a poetic space in which the influence of Robert Duncan and Gustaf Sobin are as apparent as the influences of Alice Notley, Joanne Kyger, and Susan Howe. Похожие книги: The Fly–Truffler – A Novel. The Fly–Truffler – A Novel от 1410. The Europe of Trusts.