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The Greater Infortune / The Connecting Door

The Greater Infortune / The Connecting Door

Heppenstall, Rayner
Jacques, Juliet

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 9810967616
ISBN13: 9789810967611
Publisher: Verbivoraciouspress
Published: Sep 2 2015
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

The Greater Infortune and The Connecting Door were both originally published as halves of a pair, and both released in the early 1960s as author Rayner Heppenstall turned fifty. The Greater Infortune is a revision of his Saturnine, first issued in 1943. They represent Heppenstall's engagement with two literary genres, one quite archaic and quintessentially British; the other aggressively modern and French. For The Greater Infortune his guiding principle was that film had assumed the nineteenth-century novel's exteriorised narrative function and that literary prose would do well to become more lyrical, more inward. The Connecting Door is Heppenstall's attempt at a British answer to the nouveau roman or 'anti-novel', challenging readers to disentangle three simultaneous planes of time, to work out which characters exist in the present-day reality and which as the central figure's memories, with incongruous and disorienting signifiers throwing the temporal sequence into constant doubt. These two works represent his beguiling prose and tussle with form at its peak.

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