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Turkish Delights
Three interlinked stories of family conflict concern Selim, a boy raised in a Sultan's harem, Pietro, the son of nineteenth-century Venetian nobleman, and Asher, a modern Jewish writer
184 pages, Hardcover
First published April 27, 1993
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David R. Slavitt
158 books10 followersDavid Rytman Slavitt was an American writer, poet, and translator, the author of more than 100 books.
Slavitt has written a number of novels and numerous translations from Greek, Latin, and other languages. Slavitt wrote a number of popular novels under the pseudonym Henry Sutton, starting in the late 1960s. The Exhibitionist (1967) was a bestseller and sold over four million copies. He has also published popular novels under the names of David Benjamin, Lynn Meyer, and Henry Lazarus. His first work, a book of poems titled Suits for the Dead, was published in 1961. He worked as a writer and film critic for Newsweek from 1958 to 1965.
According to Henry S. Taylor, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, "David Slavitt is among the most accomplished living practitioners" of writing, "in both prose and verse; his poems give us a pleasurable, beautiful way of meditating on a bad time. We can't ask much more of literature, and usually we get far less." Novelist and poet James Dickey wrote, "Slavitt has such an easy, tolerant, believable relationship with the ancient world and its authors that making the change-over from that world to ours is less a leap than an enjoyable stroll. The reader feels a continual sense of gratitude."
Slavitt has written a number of novels and numerous translations from Greek, Latin, and other languages. Slavitt wrote a number of popular novels under the pseudonym Henry Sutton, starting in the late 1960s. The Exhibitionist (1967) was a bestseller and sold over four million copies. He has also published popular novels under the names of David Benjamin, Lynn Meyer, and Henry Lazarus. His first work, a book of poems titled Suits for the Dead, was published in 1961. He worked as a writer and film critic for Newsweek from 1958 to 1965.
According to Henry S. Taylor, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, "David Slavitt is among the most accomplished living practitioners" of writing, "in both prose and verse; his poems give us a pleasurable, beautiful way of meditating on a bad time. We can't ask much more of literature, and usually we get far less." Novelist and poet James Dickey wrote, "Slavitt has such an easy, tolerant, believable relationship with the ancient world and its authors that making the change-over from that world to ours is less a leap than an enjoyable stroll. The reader feels a continual sense of gratitude."
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July 23, 2008
I'm just starting to read this book which is a sort of collection of three different short stories, but all worked together somehow to become a three-part meditation on the same themes. Technically, it is a novel--very postmodern in the way its threads are woven together, and yet seem to be separate.
July 14, 2008
Three tales linked by common themes of emasculation and the bondage of dysfunctional familial relationship - The first two tales, & particularly the first (the seraglio), are very well crafted. All in all, a very pleasant surprise that this book contained such readerly "delights".
DexM: No [beyond the obvious artifice of linking & analogizing the three tales]
DexM: No [beyond the obvious artifice of linking & analogizing the three tales]
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