The ten stories in The Driveway of Failed Possessions can be separated into three sections. The Rucar Trilogy brings together three love stories: "The Bear Tamers," in which a young woman from The Street of Spoons realizes that loving bears is easier than loving her husband; "The Church of Summer Sausage," in which a young sausage vendor falls in love with a horse guardian just as the jawbone of St. Ramfir passes her stall; and "The Pleasure Garden of the Root Vegetables," which proves to be even more romantic than the previous two stories. / The other two sections of the collection will be somewhat of a departure from the fablesque form encountered in the Rucar tales. Where we are prodded into the strange, the fabulous, and the spooky in the Rucar Trilogy, the next section will include a collection of miniatures that seem to squeeze realism down into its essential juices. "Infinite riches in a small room," Keats once said about poetry. The short-short stories contained in this section are infinite riches in many small rooms. / The final section will include three somewhat longer stories. The reader can think of this section as the literary equivalent of Papa Bear's bowl in "The Three Bears" on a night when Goldilocks doesn't show. / Literary clairvoyants will be able to divine some guardian spirits hovering over my shoulders as I type: the Hemingway of "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and "Hills Like White Elephants," the ideas of Gertrude Stein, and the delicious sense of the fabulous in Kafka's stories, particularly "First Sorrow." / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-07, Section: A, page: 2581. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1986.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75884 |
| Contributors | WOODMAN, ALLEN., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 76 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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