William Goyen

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Charles William Goyen (born April 24, 1915 in Trinity , Texas , † August 30, 1983 in Los Angeles ) was an American writer .

Life

William Goyen moved to Houston with his family when he was eight years old . He attended the Rice Institute there and taught literary studies for a year as a Master of Arts at the University of Houston . During World War II, he served in the US Navy as a naval officer on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. His birthplace Trinity is the setting for his first novel House of Breath , which was published in 1950 and made him famous in the United States. After the war ended, he settled in Taos, New Mexico , where Frieda Lawrence, DH Lawrence's widow , had given him land. There was his short story volume Ghost and Flesh and part of the work In a Farther Country , which he later finished in New York. Further stories were inspired by trips to Italy and England . In 1983 he died of leukemia . He was married to actress Doris Roberts from 1963 until his death .

Works

  • The House of Breath (1950)
  • Ghost and Flesh (1952)
  • In a Farther Country (1955)
  • The Fair Sister (1963)
  • Come the Restorer (1974)
  • Collected Stories (1975)
  • Arcadio (1983)

Works in German

His most famous work in Germany, Haus aus Hauch , was translated by Ernst Robert Curtius and was first published by Arche Verlag in 1952. His other work was translated into German by Elisabeth Schnack .

The thieving steppe wolf. 3 stories . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1963, DNB  451629760 .
Stories , Manesse-Verlag, Zurich 1974, ISBN 3-7175-1474-1 (For a leather edition: ISBN 3-7175-1475-X )
Spirit and flesh . Arche, Zurich 1955, DNB  57273056X .
In the most distant land. A romance , Arche, Zurich 1957
My book from Jesus , Flamberg Verlag, Zurich 1973, ISBN 3-7179-2141-X
Nests in a stone image . Arche, Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-7160-5006-7 .
The white rooster. A story . Arche, Zurich 1965, DNB  451629744 (The story is taken from the book "Geist und Fleisch").
Zamour and other stories (=  Library Suhrkamp . Volume 31 ). Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin and Frankfurt am Main 1956, DNB  451629779 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The biographical information is taken from Elisabeth Schnack's volume "The tree with the bitter figs - stories from the southern states of the USA (Zurich, Diogenes, 1967). It also contains Goyen's story of the same name from his volume" The Faces of Blood Kindred ".
personal data
SURNAME Goyen, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goyen, Charles William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Trinity , Texas
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1983
Place of death los Angeles