Blue Pastoral Psychological Fiction and fear of the body

and fear of the body in all its messy manifestations

including the Aleksis Kivi Prize (1967) and the Finnish State Award for Literature (1961)

about the ambitions of an all-encompassing knowledge

admitted in to a psychiatric clinic in Lisbon

who survived the Treblinka death camp

Blue Pastoral Psychological Fiction and fear of the bodyby Gilbert Sorrentino Publication Date: 11 01 2000 ISBN: 9781564782519 "I see him now! Somewhere out there in that gloaming that we call the Past that Time forgot his ratty beard and frizzy hair, his hearty grease sandwiches, his rusted bicycle clips. An unlikely hero, your good faces seem to say" And so we meet our hero Serge "Blue" Gavotte, a modern day Candide who quits his job, mounts a piano atop a broken down pushcart and sets off with wife and