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← Back to all issuesGranta 2: The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.
Spring 1980
In the second issue of Granta is a novella by George Steiner, short stories by John Barth, Robert Coover, Walter Abish and others, along with essays on contemporary fiction and poetry.
From this Issue
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The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H.
George Steiner
‘At moments Hitler’s head brushed against Gideon’s cheek like a clump of wet leaves.’
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B-ABEL
Jeremy Lane
‘Partial, our protagonist, to the palatal; prone, too, to the plosive; and apt, you’ve heard, to alliterate.’
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Two Poems
Richard Godden
‘She is, sharp as / an aftertaste of iron; and yet, at times, / dull.’
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Science Fiction to Superfiction
Jerome Klinkowitz & Thomas Remington
‘In terms of their readership, science fiction and traditional literature have rarely shared comfortable company.’
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Language of Detective Fiction: Fiction of Detective Language
D. A. Miller
‘The criminal language of detective fiction is subject to the same liability to backfire as crime itself.’
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Four Poems
Peter Robinson
‘I swelter in the dusk / and chase the flies, abstractedly, / until I half forget them.’
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Lucky Pierre and the Coldwater Flat
Robert Coover
‘Projections run riot, mirrors tip and weave, there’s a blur of images like film jumping out of its sprockets.’
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Bachelor Life
M.J. Fitzgerald
‘At nine o’clock the man leaves the flat dressed in an elegant salmon-pink dress’.
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Sweet Truth
Walter Abish
‘I believe in the harmony of my friendship to Gisela rather than in the binding force that the institution of marriage is said to represent.’
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The Wife
David Katz
‘Ever notice the change that comes over / your gentle wife the minute she sets / foot in a grocery store?’
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The Weightless Characters of William Styron
Robert Boyers
‘The belief in free will is necessary to most good fiction.’
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On the Death of Elizabeth Bishop
Don Guttenplan
‘Her grace, acuity, and easy command of language make Elizabeth Bishop’s writing a delight to both the mind and the ear.’
