Gustaf Sobin

Gustaf Sobin (born November 15, 1935 in Boston , † July 7, 2005 in Goult , Vaucluse , Provence ) was an American poet and storyteller .

Biographical

Sobin attended Brown University in Rhode Island and graduated in 1957. On his subsequent travels he met Ernest Hemingway in Cuba , among others . In 1960 he decided to pursue a career as a writer and moved to Paris . There he met the poet René Char , who had organized himself in the Resistance in 1940 and who influenced Sobin with his aphoristic poetry and free meter. On Char's advice, Sobin visited Provence. In Goult, a small village, he bought a house in which he lived for over forty years. In 1968 he married the English painter Susannah Bott, with whom he had a daughter and a son.

Four years later, Sobin published his first poem. In the 1970s and 1980s, many editions of poetry and travelogues followed, most of which he published privately in small editions. With his third novel, The Fly Truffler , he gained greater fame. Gustav Sobin died of cancer at the age of 69.

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Sobin's first novel Venus Blue (Venus Blue), in which he describes the 'Golden Age' of the great Hollywood actresses, was published in 1991. In his second book, Dark Mirrors , he describes the entanglement of a writer with his own storyline. The Fly Truffler , published in 1999, is about a lecturer who lives his life on a shabby farm, has an affair with a student and finally loses the boundaries between reality and imagination. In his fourth novel, Vanishing Star (In Search of a Dying Star), published in 2003, he tells an early stage in the life of actress Greta Garbo .

Gustaf Sobin published more than two dozen editions of poetry, four novels, a children's story and two collections of essays . The author has published in German at Berlin Verlag Das Taubenhaus , Venusblau , Der Trüffelsucher and In search of a dying star .

Web links

• review
• Psyche v. G. Sobin
• Collected poems

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Guardian , Sept. 26, 2005
2. ↑ Poetry Symposium ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Berlin Verlag ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.