Synopses & Reviews
Mixtures of myth and fable, these tales have their origins in Plutarch, Montaigne, The Acts of the Apostles, Theokritos, and the daily newspaper. Eclogues is a delight, and Guy Davenport proves a companionable and witty guide.
Review
"Guy Davenport mixes historical fact, a philosophical imagination, and an almost hallucinatory prose style to create short stories that are at once marvelous, frustrating, and original. Davenport is not concerned with storytelling; his obsessions are with perspective, the play of time, linguistic experimentation. His accomplishment is to take the many classical referents in which he delights and inform them with a three dimensionality that is alive with all the convolutions and perturbations of an exciting modern mind." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)