James Purdy

James Purdy (1957)

James Otis Purdy ( July 17, 1914 in Hicksville , Ohio - March 13, 2009 in Englewood , New Jersey ) was an American writer .

Life

Purdy was born in 1914 (as was not known until after his death) near Hicksville, Ohio. He attended from 1944 to 1947, the university in the Mexican Puebla , the University of Chicago and the University in Madrid . Between 1949 and 1953 Purdy taught at Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin . Purdy was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship twice, in 1958 and 1962 .

After his literary debut in 1956, Purdy published almost 20 novels and a large number of short stories. In addition, he published poems, plays and drawings. Purdy's oeuvre has occasionally led to strong polarization among critics and the public due to its sometimes extremely non-conformist portrayal of sexual processes. Purdy last lived in Brooklyn Heights , New York City.

bibliography

Works in German

• The color of darkness . Eleven stories and a novella, OT: Color of Darkness, transl. Helene Henze, Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 1959.
• Malcolm . Roman, OT: Malcolm, translator Erwin Duncker, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1963.
  • NA at Luchterhand Literaturverlag 1992, ISBN 3-630-71024-7 .
• The nephew . Roman, OT: The Nephew, translator Erwin Duncker & Peter Bermbach. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1964.
  • NA at Luchterhand 1992, ISBN 3-630-71036-0 .
• Always just the children . Piece in two pictures, OT: Children is All, translator Sandra Hoch-Lucas, Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main ~ 1966.
• Cabot Wright gets started . Roman, OT: Cabot Wright Begins, transl. Gisela Stege, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1967.
  • NA at Luchterhand 1992, ISBN 3-630-71080-8 .
• The disclosure . Roman, OT: Eustace Chisholm and the Works, trans. Kai Molvig , Rowohlt, Reinbek 1970, ISBN 3-498-05215-2 .
  • revised NA at Albino, Berlin 1996, red. Gerhard Hoffmann, ISBN 3-86187-511-X .
  • NA with an essay by Jonathan Franzen at Gmünder, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86787-797-8 .
• Tight spaces . Roman, OT: Narrow Rooms, trans. Wolfgang Eisermann, Albino, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-88803-003-X .
  • NA bei Gmünder, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-86187-306-0 .
• The millionaire on the spiral staircase of cannibalistic relationships . Roman, OT: I Am Elijah Trush, transl. Wolfgang Eisermann, Albino, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-88803-012-9 .
• The song of the blood . Roman, OT: In a Shallow Grave, transl. Dino Heicker & Michael Sollorz , Albino, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-86187-507-1 .
• Affectionate cannibals . Stories, trans. Jürgen Abel , MännerschwarmSkript Verlag, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-928983-32-6 .

Works not translated

Sleepers in Moon-Crowned Valleys

1. Jeremy's version . Doubleday (publisher) 1970.
2. House of the Solitary Maggot . Doubleday 1974, ISBN 0-385-04413-5 .
3. The Mourners Below . Viking Press 1981, ISBN 0-670-49142-X .
4. On Glory's Course . Viking Press 1984, ISBN 0-670-52451-4 .

Novels

• Lessons and Complaints . Nadja Publications 1978.
• In the hollow of his hand . Grove Press 1986, ISBN 1-55584-002-7 .
• Garments the Living Wear . Peter Owen, 1989, ISBN 0-7206-0733-7 .
• Out with the stars . Peter Owen, 1991, ISBN 0-7206-0861-9 .
• Epistles of Care . Distributed Art Pub. 1995, ISBN 0-936109-53-X
• Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue . Peter Owen, 1996, ISBN 0-7206-1011-7

Other works

• 63: Dream Palace . Short stories, William Frederick Press 1956.
  • NA at Penguin Books 1981, ISBN 0-14-005732-3 .
• Dream Palaces . 3 novels, Viking Press 1980, ISBN 0-670-28463-7 .
• Brooklyn Branding Parlors . Poems, Contact Pub. 1986, ISBN 0-936556-13-7 .
• The Candles of Your Eyes . 14 short stories, Peter Owen, ISBN 0-7206-0694-2
• 63: Dream Palace Selected Stories 1956-1987 . Black Sparrow Press, 1991, ISBN 0-87685-846-9 .
• Moe's villa and other stories . 12 Stories, Arcadia Books, 2000, ISBN 1-900850-37-0 .
• The lesson . Narration in anthology Poolside , Melcher Media 2007, ISBN 978-1-59591-010-3 .
• The complete short stories of James Purdy , introd. by John Waters, New York, NY [u. a.]: Liveright, 2013, ISBN 978-0-87140-669-9

literature

• Peter Freese : James Purdy . In: ders .: The American short story after 1945 · Salinger · Malamud · Baldwin · Purdy · Barth . Athenäum Verlag Frankfurt a. M. 1974, ISBN 3-7610-1816-9 , pp. 321-351.

Edits

• Edward Albee : Malcolm. An adaptation of the novel by James Purdy (1965), translated by Pinkas Braun . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main ~ 1977
• Hans-Jürgen von Bose : 63: Dream Palace. Opera based on a novella by James Purdy. (comp. 1989 / premiere: May 6, 1990,  Munich Biennale )
• Alexander Strauch : Narrow Rooms , Opera (1996). Libretto: Marcus Hank

Web links

• Literature by and about James Purdy in the catalog of the German National Library
• James Purdy in Internet Movie Database (English)
• James Purdy in nndb (English)
• “James Purdy, Darkly Comic Writer, Dies at 94” , NYT obituary, March 13, 2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ James Purdy Has Died. In: The New York Times . March 13, 2009.