Blind Man's Bluff (Irish Literature) by Aidan Higgins


Blind Man's Bluff (Irish Literature)
Title : Blind Man's Bluff (Irish Literature)
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ISBN : 1564787257
ISBN-10 : 9781564787255
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 60
Publication : First published June 5, 2012

Perversely, but perhaps appropriately, Aidan Higgins—one of the few contemporary writers worthy of comparison with Beckett and Joyce, now celebrating his 85th year—has chosen to wait until his sight has nearly left him to assemble this collection of visual treats. A commonplace book of anecdotes and cartoons—the latter never before published, though familiar to all of Higgins's correspondents from the margins of his letters and postcards—Blind Man's Bluff is a compendium of tart and comic insights into sight itself, as well as other varied indignities: personal, historical, and literary.

Blind Man's Bluff (Irish Literature) Reviews

  • Kylie

    This was a little snack. I'm on a photo-embedded literature journey and discovered this on an amazing blog,
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  • Terry Pitts

    How much fiction is embedded in these twenty brief, mostly autobiographic sketches and ponderings on topics such as publisher John Calder, Albert Speer’s garden, Robinson Crusoe, and blindness? Regardless of the answer, they are all delightful short stories. The book includes a number of Higgins’ wonderful pen and ink sketches, along with eight intriguing photographs (three of which are photocollages).

  • Micah

    its not bad overall. I like the subject. something about the structure just didn't grab me. I think it had to do with the pacing. which parts he chose to go deep on didn't always seem to make since either to the flow of the book or to the story he was telling.

  • Steven

    Yeah, so what if it's short, it's also beautifully written, interestingly put together and altogether human. If you feel like you didn't get your money's worth...read it twice.