Gilbert Sorrentino

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

In 1956, Sorrentino founded with his friends from Brooklyn College, including his childhood friend, Hubert Selby Jr., the literary magazine Neon, which was published until 1960. After that, he was one of the editors of the journal Kulchur. After he had worked closely in 1964 with Selby on the manuscript of Last Exit to Brooklyn, he was a lecturer at the Underground Publishing Grove Press ( 1965-1970 ). He was responsible, inter alia, The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

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

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

Sorrentino is one of the better known authors of literary postmodernism. Its also translated into German novels Mulligan Stew and the apparent deflection of starlight have metafictional character.

Bibliography

Prose

  • The Sky Changes. Hill & Wang, New York 1966.
  • Steelwork. Pantheon, New York, 1970 ( Eng.: Steelwork A Brooklyn novel. ).
  • Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things. Pantheon, New York, 1971 ( Eng.: Suppose that it is really true ).
  • Splendide -Hôtel. 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 ( Eng.: Mulligan Stew ).
  • Aberration of Starlight. Random House, New York, 1980 ( Eng.: The apparent deflection of starlight ).
  • Crystal Vision. North Point Press, Berleley, CA 1981.
  • Blue ministry. North Point, Berkeley, 1983.
  • Odd Number. North Point, Berkeley, 1985.
  • Misterioso. Dalkey Archive, Elmwood Park in 1989.
  • Under the Shadow. Dalkey Archive, Elmwood Park in 1991.
  • Red the Fiend. Fromm International Publ Co., New York 1995.
  • Fools Gold. Sun & Moon Press, Los Angeles 1999.
  • Little Casino. Coffee House Press, 2002.
  • The Moon in its Flight: Stories. Coffee House Press, 2004. ( Stories )
  • Lunar Follies. Coffee House Press, 2005.
  • A Strange Commonplace (2006).
  • The Abyss of Human Illusion. Coffee House Press, 2010.

Seal

  • Black and white. Totem, New York 1964.
  • The Perfect Fiction. Norton, New York 1968.
  • Corrosive sublimates. 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, p 298-316.
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