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Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

Daymares

Selected Fictions on Dreams and Time

by (author) Robert Zend

Publisher
Ronsdale Press
Initial publish date
Apr 1991
Category
Short Stories (single author)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780921870128
    Publish Date
    Apr 1991
    List Price
    $12.95

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Description

Robert Zend's eleventh book continues his wonderfully surreal explorations of the mind trapped in the paradoxes of time and space. This posthumous edition includes a Foreword by John Robert Colombo and an Afterword by Northrop Frye.

About the author

Robert Zend (1929 — 1985), poet, author, documentary producer and inveteate doodler, emigrated to Canada in 1956 following the Soviet invasion of Hungary. He received his undergraduate degree from the Péter Pá:zmány University in Budapest in 1953 and an MA in Italian Literature from the University of Toronto in 1969. He was a prolific poet in both English and Hungarian and his work appeared in numerous journals and literary magazines. Zend's visual art was exhibited in Budapest (1968), Florence, Italy (1984) and Toronto (1986).

Starting as a shipper with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in 1958, Zend worked through the ranks as a film librarian and film editor, eventually becoming a radio producer. As a member of the CBC "Ideas" program team, he researched, wrote, directed and produced over one hundred radio programs featuring such notables as Nothrop Frye, Glenn Gould, and the Dalai Lama.

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