Marvin Cohen

Broschiertes Buch

How to Outthink a Wall

An Anthology

Beschreibung

Who is Marvin Cohen? Brooklyn-born New Yorker Marvin Cohen published numerous surreal and whimsical fictions in books and magazines from 1967 to 1982. This anthology showcases the two modes of Cohen's writing: short 'dialogues' operating in the manner of an Ionesco or Beckett script by inverting language with an eschatological hopelessness while revelling, rather than despairing, in life's absurdity, and longer stories displaying Cohen's unique style and knack for shaping language in novel ways: his repetitions, random exclamations, and bestowing on abstract nouns abstract qualities. Cohen has an ear for the music of the absurd on a par with Donald Barthelme, mixing the flip whimsy, astute and wry observation, and verbal heft, with a fondness for paradoxes and intellectual riddles. His incessant probing of the weird crevices of existence makes reading Cohen a perpetual pleasure. This anthology collects Cohen's four volumes of short fiction. "His stories are bursting with inventiveness, and have a way of posing awkward questions-this, when most of the world's story writers are content with dry observation, or mere character assassination." - The Times Literary Supplement

Autor

Marvin Cohen (born July 6, 1931), is the author of a number of episodic novels, plays and verse, a book on baseball, and several collections of shorter pieces-stories, dialogues, parables, and idiosyncratic essays. His work has also appeared in more than 100 publications, from the experimental to the mainstream, including: Ambit, Antaeus, Assembling ("a collection of otherwise unpublishable writings"), The Beat Scene (alongside Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Corso), Chelsea, Fiction, The Hudson Review, Thomas Merton's Monks Pond, New Directions in Prose and Poetry, The Transatlantic Review, The New York Times, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.Cohen was born in Brooklyn, New York City. He has described himself as one who has "risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground." He studied art at Cooper Union but left college to focus on writing. He supported himself with a series of short-term jobs including mink farmer and merchant seaman. He later taught creative writing at various New York colleges. He is married and currently lives with his wife in Manhattan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VerbivoraciousPress
• Seitenzahl: 478
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 687g
• ISBN-13: 9789811101182
• ISBN-10: 9811101183
• Artikelnr.: 45552816