Gilbert Sorrentino

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Gilbert Sorrentino (born April 27, 1929 in Brooklyn , New York City , † May 18, 2006 in New York City) was an American writer.

In 1956 Sorrentino and his friends from Brooklyn College, including childhood friend Hubert Selby Jr., founded the literary magazine Neon , which was published until 1960. After that he was one of the editors of Kulchur magazine . After working closely with Selby on the manuscript of Last Exit to Brooklyn in 1964, he became an editor at underground publisher Grove Press (from 1965 to 1970). He supervised u. a. The Autobiography of Malcolm X .

Sorrentino was Professor of English at Stanford University from 1982 to 1999 . Among his students were the writers Jeffrey Eugenides and Nicole Krauss. His son Christopher Sorrentino is the novelist of Sound on Sound and Trance.

Sorrentino's first novel, The Sky Changes , was published in 1966 . Other important novels were Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things , Blue Pastoral and Mulligan Stew.

Sorrentino is one of the better known authors of the literary postmodern . His novels Mulligan Stew and The Apparent Deflection of Starlight , also translated into German, have a metafictional character.

bibliography

prose

  • The Sky Changes. Hill & Wang, New York 1966.
  • Steelwork. Pantheon, New York 1970 (German: Steelwork. A Brooklyn novel).
  • Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things. Pantheon, New York 1971 (let's assume it's really true).
  • Splendide-Hotel. New Directions, New York 1973.
  • Flawless Play Restored: The Masque of Fungo. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles 1974. (Drama)
  • Mulligan Stew . Grove, New York 1979 (German: Mulligan Stew).
  • Aberration of Starlight. Random House, New York 1980 (German: The apparent deflection of starlight).
  • Crystal vision. North Point Press, Berkeley, CA 1981.
  • Blue pastoral. North Point, Berkeley 1983.
  • Odd number. North Point, Berkeley 1985.
  • Rose Theater. Dalkey Archive Press, Elmwood Park, IL 1987.
  • Misterioso. Dalkey Archives, Elmwood Park 1989.
  • Under the shadow. Dalkey Archives, Elmwood Park 1991.
  • Red the Fiend. Fromm International Publ. Co., New York 1995.
  • Gold fools. Sun & Moon Press, Los Angeles 1999.
  • Little Casino. Coffee House Press, 2002.
  • The Moon in its Flight: Stories. Coffee House Press 2004. (Short stories)
  • Lunar follies. Coffee House Press 2005.
  • A Strange Commonplace (2006).
  • The Abyss of Human Illusion. Coffee House Press 2010.

poetry

  • The Darkness Surrounds Us. Jargon, Highlands, NC 1960.
  • Black and White. Totem, New York 1964.
  • The Perfect Fiction. Norton, New York 1968.
  • Corrosive sublimate. Black Sparrow, Los Angeles 1971.
  • A Dozen Oranges. Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, CA 1976.
  • White Sail. Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1977.
  • Sulpiciae Elegidia: Elegiacs of Sulpicia. Perishable Press, Mount Horeb 1977.
  • The Orangery. University of Texas Press, Austin 1978.
  • Selected Poems 1958-1980. Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1981.
  • A Beehive Arranged on Humane Principles. Grenfell Press, New York 1986.

Literary criticism

  • Something Said: Essays by Gilbert Sorrentino. North Point Press, Berkeley 1984.
  • Neon, Kulchur, Etc. In: TriQuarterly , Vol. 43, 1978, pp. 298-316.

literature

  • William McPheron: Gilbert Sorrentino: A Descriptive Bibliography. Dalkey Archive Press, Elmwood Park, IL 1991.
  • Eric Mottram: The Black Polar Night: The Poetry of Gilbert Sorrentino. In: VORT , Vol. 2, No. 3, autumn 1974.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sorrentino published number 4 in 1961 and worked on issues 3, 1961 to 15, autumn 1964, with Jed Birmingham: Kulchur , RealityStudio blog . Sorrentino and editor Lita Hornick later gave conflicting assessments of Kulchur. In: Elliott Anderson, Mary Kinzie (Eds.): The Little Magazine in America. Pushcart Press, Yonkers 1979.
  2. ^ Anthony Miller: Sorrentino's Synthetic Ink-quisitions. , accessed January 27, 2012.
  3. ↑ online in: Jacket , No. 29, April 2006 , accessed on January 27, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Sorrentino, Gilbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 2006
Place of death New York City