Poet and Dancer

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"Readin^uth Prawer Jhabvala's novel Poet and Dancer, one thinks often of fairy tales—but real ones, scary frasments from the vernacular, or the darker narratives of Andersen or Grimm It's as if the bothersome distractions that natter in the background of so much contemporary fiction have been silenced. Surfaces have been peeled away, like the skin of an onion, and what Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has revealed is a story—at once as clear and as hauntinsly mysterious as a fairy tale—about the nature of passion, desire, identity, and the bonds of an attachment that are stronger than reason, stronger even than death."
—Francine Prose, Washington Post Book World
"Poet and Dancer is set in today's Manhattan and seems more akin to the work of I. B. Singer, a blend of the ethereal and the earthy The style is simple and unadorned, as though anything more ripe would overwhelm Jhabvala's briskly told cautionary tale of innocence and experience, passion... Tovább

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CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR
P P E T AND DANCER
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"Readin^uth Prawer Jhabvala's novel Poet and Dancer, one thinks often of fairy tales—but real ones, scary frasments from the vernacular, or the darker narratives of Andersen or Grimm It's as if the bothersome distractions that natter in the background of so much contemporary fiction have been silenced. Surfaces have been peeled away, like the skin of an onion, and what Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has revealed is a story—at once as clear and as hauntinsly mysterious as a fairy tale—about the nature of passion, desire, identity, and the bonds of an attachment that are stronger than reason, stronger even than death."
—Francine Prose, Washington Post Book World
"Poet and Dancer is set in today's Manhattan and seems more akin to the work of I. B. Singer, a blend of the ethereal and the earthy The style is simple and unadorned, as though anything more ripe would overwhelm Jhabvala's briskly told cautionary tale of innocence and experience, passion and paralysis."
—Newsday
"Love is [Jhabvala's] real subject in Poet and Dancer—love in its most consuming, obsessive form In the final analysis. Poet and Dancer \s a most painful book, and a frustrating one, not because of any lapse on the part of the storyteller but rather because it succeeds so well in chronicling such abuse, such toadying, the complete annihilation of the human soul in the name of love. Yet the writing soars, and one feels irresistibly caught up in the story."
—Los Angeles Times
"In Poet and Dancer the two arts become metaphors for the soul in a complex moral tale that examines the fine line between self-sacrifice and self-destruction." Vissza