Van Gogh's Room at Arles (American Literature (dalkey Archive) Ser.)

By: Stanley Elkin

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Synopsis: Three witty and poignant novellas from a twentieth-century literary master at the peak of his craft Van Gogh&’s Room at Arles is Stanley Elkin&’s second collection of novellas, a razor-sharp exploration of three characters suffering under the weight of intellectual, physical, and social burdens. In the collection&’s title story, Elkin writes of an insecure professor&’s scholarly retreat with the most accomplished members of his field. &“Her Sense of Timing&” is a story of a man who, though confined to a wheelchair, attempts to throw a party without the help of his absent wife. And in &“Confessions of a Princess Manque,&” Elkin writes of the Prince of Wales&’s love affair with a common woman in a parody of a sensationalist tabloid story. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.