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but as a controlled work of art by a conceptual artist who wanted to leave us with a lasting document from which we might

His storytelling lays bare his own obsessions: food

as well as by their pessimistic eloquence

Higgins himself refers to Darkling Plain: Texts for the Air as his last great unpublished work

the ambition and breadth of his later works have won him an enduring reputation as one of America's greatest authors

The Death of Lysanda (Hardcover) Catalan Literature Series but as a controlled workIn fragmented prose halfway between the Old Testament and the playful stories of Julio Cortzar, these tales take to pieces the psyches of two menand a nationat war with themselves. The Death of Lysanda collects two macabre novellas by one of Israel's greatest writers. In the title piece, we meet Naphtali Noi, a recently divorced proofreader, critic, and "creative" taxidermist, given to hallucinations and soon perhaps to add murder to his hobbies. Ants