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A marvellous magician ... a maker of miracles, a comic, a sexual tease (The New York Times Book Review )
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In his carnivalesque and riotously inventive Pricksongs & Descants Robert Coover remakes old stories: of Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Beauty (who married her Beast and spends a lifetime suffering his doggy stink). And he reshapes his own: a man makes repeating, re-imagined journeys in an office elevator (while his fellow riders taunt and tempt him), and in the seminal, fractal 'The Babysitter' every moment in a single night is played and replayed, every hope and threat of sex and violence done and undone. Coover's dark, wilfil, comic imagination revels brilliantly in contradictions, a master of chaos.
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Robert Coover is a playful, inventive writer who writes in a demanding, frequently unrealistic (that is, anti-realist) way. In this collection (his first) he questions a lot of the traditions of storytelling. The writing is fresh and strange. As the title suggests, Coover is toying with narrative, its music, its masculine thrust and its lyrical elements. This is experimental and extravagant late 60s fabulation - catnip to readers who like that kind of thing, bewildering and irritating for the many who don't. Personally I'm excited by the way Coover takes elements of folk literature and pretty much explodes them on the page, in a way that's disruptive and fantastical.
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