Behind The Lines: Pieces Of Writing And Pictures; Author: Hofmann, Michael; Paperback

Author: Hofmann, Michael
Paperback
332 pages
Published: July 2001
Faber and Faber Ltd
ISBN: 0571195237
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An exceptional collection of writing (Candida Clark, The Observer) about literature and art by a noted poet and translator Since 1980, the poet and translator Michael Hofmann has also been a prolific reviewer, and his widely published critical writings encompass a broad range of novels, poems, paintings, plays and movies. Behind the Lines brings together these dispatches from the fields of literature and art, and also includes pieces on writers such as Wallace Stevens, Thomas Bernhard, and Paul Bowles, and artists and filmmakers ranging from Otto Dix to Andrei Tarkovsky.Rarely has the critic's labor been carried out with more elan than in these pages. Hofmann's interests as a reader and art lover are diverse, and in candid, omnivorous prose he approaches the work of the writeA gathering of reviews and critical writings from one of our foremost poets. A collection of reviews and critical writings from one of our foremost poets. Hofmann looks east to the writers of the other Europe and westwards to the American scene. Figures discussed include Frank O'Hara, Eugenio Montale, Seamus Heaney, Otto Dix, Wim Wenders, Paul Muldoon and Malcolm Lowry.