Books : Knife Thrower and Other Stories
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by: Steven Millhauser
Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9781861591364
Format: Import
ISBN: 1861591365
Label: PHOENIX HOUSE
Manufacturer: PHOENIX HOUSE
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 1999
Publisher: PHOENIX HOUSE
Sales Rank: 1862962
Studio: PHOENIX HOUSE
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Lucid Dreams
The stories that make up "The Knife Thrower" break down into roughly four categories: 1) Stories of enchantment ("A Visit", "Clair de Lune", "Flying Carpets.." , 2) Constructed Worlds ("Paradise Park", "Beneath the Cellars of Our Town", 3)Extreme Mental States ("Kaspar Hauser Speaks", "The Way Out", "Balloon Flight, 1870". and 4)The Nature of Art ("Knife Thrower", "The New Automaton Theatre").
Millhauser's most marked literary influences would appear to be Poe (...don't all of these ... Read More
Rating:  - Unbelievable: Millhauser is a genius
This is my favorite book of short stories. Millhauser has changed the way I perceive ordinary life. What a pleasure it is to read such an original writer! Millhauser is proof we still have Romantics and great stylists in this day and age. For a moment after reading this collection - I seriously thought I was going to faint.
Rating: - My favorite contemporary writer at his very best
After only Marcel Proust, there is no author whom I more intensely enjoy than Steven Millhauser. I rank him with and even above several more-famous writers whom I also love: Faulkner, Borges, Stevenson, Joyce, and Nabokov among them.
Of the seven Millhauser books that I own, this is, I believe, the best of them. The Barnum Museum, another collection of short stories, would be a close second, with the idiosyncratic novel Edwin Mullhouse being the third contender.
Writing ... Read More
Rating: - Beautiful prose
The oneiric quality of Millhauser's prose reminds me that of such masters as Neil Gaiman,
Ray Bradbury and Lord Dunsany.His poetic, poignant and disturbing short stories are carefully crafted little gems with a fantastical bent that
frequently exude a sense of otherworldliness and evoke feelings of melancholy and dread.
There's a poetic beauty in Millhauser's prose unmatched by any conteporary writer
This collection is a fine display of Millhauser's talent and shouldn't be ... Read More
Rating: - Moving, creepy and exhiliarating at the same time
You never know where you're going in a Steven Millhauser story, but you are always glad you came along for the ride. (This reader is not a huge fan of the short-story form, but I make an exception for Millhauser and other modern masters like Stuart Dybek.) Millhauser's genius in "Knife Thrower" is his narrator's voice-a spooky, spectral "we" who seems to be both watching the bizarre spectacle below and a part of it. After a few stories, the reader becomes part of the "we," and is transported into a ... Read More
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