The World within the Word – Essays

The World within the Word – Essays (American Literature Series)
de William Gass

352 pp
Dalkey Archive Press, 2014
9781628970395

The World Within the Word, Gass's second published volume of criticism, is a landmark collection discussing Val ry, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner, suicide, "art and order," and the transformation of language into poetry and fiction. Revelatory and gorgeous, by turns humorous and devastating, it stands among Gass's best and most provocative books. First published by Knopf in 1978.