Harry Mathews

Harry Mathews ( born February 14, 1930 in New York City ) is an American author.

Life

Harry Mathews is an American child upper class family. He attended a private school, studied music since 1947 at Princeton University and graduated in 1952, after a year interruption by military service, at Harvard University from. In 1949 he married Niki de Saint Phalle, who came from the same milieu and with the early marriage rebelled against her family, in 1951 and 1955, the children Laura and Philip were born. Mathews and his wife moved to Europe in 1952, where he broke his conducting education in Paris and began to write. The first novel he wrote The conversions 1958-1960. Niki left him in 1960, he assisted them in subsequent years by buying art objects from her.

In the fifties and sixties, he was associated with the New York School of Poets, closing an artistic friendship with John Ashbery. 1970 Mathews was with the French writer Georges Perec announced their collaboration ended only with the death of Perec's 1982. Perec made ​​in 1972 for Mathews ' admission to the Oulipo was founded in 1960 Group, which, among other things Italo Calvino, Raymond Queneau and Oskar Pastior belonged. Mathews gave at the 1998 Atlas Press an English-language compendium of the group out. Mathews ' experiments with the potential literature found few readers.

In 1982 he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and in 1991 a literary prize of the National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1991 he had a scholarship for the Berlin Artists Programme of the DAAD and refreshed his knowledge of German to. Mathews married in 1992 Marie Chaix, for which he translated more than her first novel Les lauriers du lac de Constance into English.

Mathews holds in France, where he lived most of his life, and the USA. He has six novels written (The conversions Tlooth, The Sinking of the Odradek stage, Cigarettes, The Journalist, My Life in CIA ), several volumes of poetry, the first, The Ring in 1960, short stories and a large number of essays and journal articles. Mathews is also working at the interface between literature and music. The Oxford Book of American Poetry, he is represented with the poem Histoire ( 1982). The novel My Life in the CIA refers to the fact that he in his circle of acquaintances in the early 1970s - was considered a CIA agent, his " autobiographical novel " explains - at the time he stayed in the "front - town " West Berlin on not on, it will remain in limbo between memoir and fiction.

Mathews has a number of writings translated from French into English, he himself writes in the French language.

In Peter Schamonis in 1995 created documentary Niki de Saint Phalle: Who is the monster - You or me? is the ten-year marriage between de Saint Phalle and Mathews, Mathews had in the role of breadwinner, child educator and nurse, not a topic.

Works in German translation

  • My Life as a CIA: a chronicle of the year 1973 Autobiographical novel.. From the American Michael Mundhenk. Engeler, Basel, 2006.
  • Minima moralia. The Bratislavische Spiccato. From the Amerikan. by Werner Schmitz and Max Looser. Ed. Plasma, Berlin 1996.
  • Autobiography. From the Amerikan. by Michael Mundhenk. Maro -Verl., Augsburg 1995.
  • Transformations. From the Amerikan. by Werner Schmitz. Photo part: Renate of Mangoldt. Construction -Verl., Berlin 1993.
  • The orchard: Memories of Georges Perec. From the Amerikan. Uli Becker. Ed. Plasma, Berlin 1991.
  • Roussel and Venice: Design a melancholy geography. From the French of Hanns Grössel. Ed. Plasma, Berlin 1991.
  • Cigarettes: novel. From the Amerikan. by Werner Schmitz. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  • Zlahn. From d Amerikan. by Marc Adrian. March -Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1970.
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