Gustaf Sobin

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

Biographical

Sobin attended Brown University in Rhode Iceland and graduated in 1957. During his subsequent travels he met among others Ernest Hemingway in Cuba know. In 1960, he decided on a literary career and moved to Paris. There he met the poet René Char, who had organized in 1940 in the Resistance and Sobin influenced with his aphoristic poetry and its free verse. In Chars Council Sobin attended the Provence. In Goult, a small village, he bought a house, where 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 was followed by many poem spending and travel reports he published mostly privately in small editions. With his third novel, The Fly Truffler he gained greater prominence. Gustav Sobin died at age 69 from cancer.

Work

Sobins first novel Venus Blue (Venus Blue), in which he describes the ' Golden Age ' of the great Hollywood actresses, appeared in 1991. In his second book Dark Mirrors, he describes the involvement of a writer with his own storyline. The Fly Truffler ( The truffle hunter ), published in 1999, is about a teacher who ekes out his life on a rundown farm, has an affair with a student and eventually loses the boundaries between reality and imagination. In his fourth novel, Vanishing Star ( In Search of a dying star), published in 2003, he told an early stage of life of the actress Greta Garbo.

Gustaf Sobin published more than two dozen poetry editions, four novels, a children's story and two collections of essays. In German, the pigeon house, Venus Blue, The truffle hunter and In Search of a dying star have been published by the author at Yale University Press.