Her by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Vincent McHugh - 9780811200424

HerAuthor(s): Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Vincent McHugh\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, United States\nImprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation\nISBN-13: 9780811200424, 978-0811200424\nSynopsis\n\""To all those who have for several years sought to discredit the new American literature, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has just dealt a most powerful blow,\"" wrote French critic Pierre Lepape in 1961 when Her was published in France as La Quatrime Personne du Singulier. Calling it \""a masterpiece of the young American novel,\"" Lepape declared it was \""the confirmation of a great American writer who, in the hall of American literary glories, takes the place left vacant by the death of Hemingway.\"" Lepape went on to speak of the \""incredible verbal virtuosity\"" by which the reader is led through this \""laby-rve,\"" and it is this image of the \""labyrinth-dream\"" which relates Her to the anti-novels of the young French school of Robbe-Grillet and Butor.\n\nBeing .