Tell Borges If You See Him: Tales of Contemporary Somnambulism (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction) (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)

by Peter LaSalle

Book Overview

To be untethered in the waking world, to have the feeling that perhaps we are sleepwalking-that's what life can be like for the people in these eleven stories by Peter LaSalle, known to readers of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820329983
• ISBN13: 9780820329987
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.2" x 1.1" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Hey Borges, this is wonderful!

Here is a worthy heir to the Borgesian ideal of the elliptical, tantalizing narrative that unwinds along unexpected paths to achieve sometimes shocking, sometimes unbalancing, always breathtaking conclusions. I read these stories in sequence, each one building on the previous one, until together they achieved a tapestry of mystery and wonder. While La Salle clearly wants to follow Borges's tracks, he manages at the same time to create a personal, naturalistic springboard that surprises the reader with a uniquely contemporary vision. In the process, La Salle unleashes a torrent of language and imagery that builds with an almost symphonic power. This is the short story unfettered from formulas, in a voice that invites the reader to shed notions of comfort and expectation in order to enter a more perfect disorder -- a driven narrative that flirts with chaos, but delivers in the end a gentle, graceful landing.