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Conversations with Jerome Charyn

Engelsk Hardback

Conversations with Jerome Charyn

Engelsk Hardback
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This volume of fourteen interviews covers the prolific and rich career of author Jerome Charyn (b. 1937). Four of the interviews appear in English for the first time, and two interviews appear here in print for the first time as well.As one of his autobiographical volumes claims, Jerome Charyn is a "Bronx Boy," a child born from immigrant parents who went through Ellis Island in the 1920s like so many other travelers without luggage, a "little werewolf" who grew up on his own in the chaos of the Bronx ghetto. "I think I was defined by two things: World War II and the movies." His work remains deeply marked by this childhood largely forgotten by the American Dream. While Charyn has spent much of his life in Paris, he has paradoxically never left the Bronx: "''El Bronx'' is there inside my head, and I revisit it the way Hemingway would fish the Big Two-Hearted River in his dreams." His whole work is a long attempt at evoking his own history and celebrating his lifelong marveling at the power of language-"our second skin"-as well as his deep, unflinching belief in the promises of fiction.Since 1964, Charyn has published more than fifty books ranging from fiction to nonfiction and including short stories, very popular crime novels, graphic novels co-written with European artists, essays on American culture and cinema as well as on New York, autobiography and biography-an ever-changing production that has made it difficult for critics to classify him. And yet in many ways Charyn''s writing thrives on constant currents: the words "voice," "song," "undersong," or "rhythm" return frequently in his interviews as he explains what literature is to him and ceaselessly asserts that he is trying "to find a music for a music-less world," a language for "people who cannot speak."Sophie Vallas teaches at Aix-Marseille Université, France. She has published essays on several American novelists including Paul Auster, Chester Himes, J. D. Salinger, Flannery O''Connor, Jim Harrison, Don DeLillo, and Colum McCann. She is the author of Jerome Charyn et les siens: Autofictions.
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This volume of fourteen interviews covers the prolific and rich career of author Jerome Charyn (b. 1937). Four of the interviews appear in English for the first time, and two interviews appear here in print for the first time as well.As one of his autobiographical volumes claims, Jerome Charyn is a "Bronx Boy," a child born from immigrant parents who went through Ellis Island in the 1920s like so many other travelers without luggage, a "little werewolf" who grew up on his own in the chaos of the Bronx ghetto. "I think I was defined by two things: World War II and the movies." His work remains deeply marked by this childhood largely forgotten by the American Dream. While Charyn has spent much of his life in Paris, he has paradoxically never left the Bronx: "''El Bronx'' is there inside my head, and I revisit it the way Hemingway would fish the Big Two-Hearted River in his dreams." His whole work is a long attempt at evoking his own history and celebrating his lifelong marveling at the power of language-"our second skin"-as well as his deep, unflinching belief in the promises of fiction.Since 1964, Charyn has published more than fifty books ranging from fiction to nonfiction and including short stories, very popular crime novels, graphic novels co-written with European artists, essays on American culture and cinema as well as on New York, autobiography and biography-an ever-changing production that has made it difficult for critics to classify him. And yet in many ways Charyn''s writing thrives on constant currents: the words "voice," "song," "undersong," or "rhythm" return frequently in his interviews as he explains what literature is to him and ceaselessly asserts that he is trying "to find a music for a music-less world," a language for "people who cannot speak."Sophie Vallas teaches at Aix-Marseille Université, France. She has published essays on several American novelists including Paul Auster, Chester Himes, J. D. Salinger, Flannery O''Connor, Jim Harrison, Don DeLillo, and Colum McCann. She is the author of Jerome Charyn et les siens: Autofictions.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 164
ISBN-13: 9781628460896
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 162846089X
Udg. Dato: 30 sep 2014
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: University Press of Mississippi
Oplagsdato: 30 sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781628460896


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 164


Udgave


Længde 0mm


Bredde 152mm


Højde 229mm


Udg. Dato 30 sep 2014


Oplagsdato 30 sep 2014


Forlag University Press of Mississippi