After the Water Receded (eBook)

David T. Bradford (Autor)

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2025
168 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
979-8-3852-2527-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Bradford's new literary collection includes stories and tales, surreal vignettes, epistolary exchanges, and dream reports. His experiments in historical fiction are stunning feats of imaginative transposal focused on a seventh-century ascetic and the modern artists Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian, and Marcel Duchamp. Bradford's prose is precise, charged, highly metaphoric, at times breath-stealing in its beauty, and versatile enough to capture the ruminations of a serial killer, the inelegant speech of a ranch hand describing his experience of being struck by lightning, and the telegraphic communications of the poet Paul Valery's character Monsieur Teste. Bradford's essay on artistic creativity doubles as a memoir, and the works themselves are fascinating--imagine material artwork that avoids all means of adhesion. The preface mentions his book's main themes: death and the scenes that surround it; spiritual intent and mystical experience; artistic creativity and the production of artwork; and the trials of inhabiting a physical body. An obvious fifth theme is our dystopian future. In the style he calls visionary prose, Bradford describes just such a dark future.

Autor

David T. Bradford is a writer and independent scholar.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.10.2025
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: After the Water Receded • ART • David T. Bradford • Dystopia • Fiction • Fiction: general and literary • Historical • historical fiction • Literary • Literature • Memoir • Mysticism • Surrealism • visionary and metaphysical
• ISBN-13: 979-8-3852-2527-9 / 9798385225279