Harold Brodkey (1930–1996)
Forfatter af Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
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Harold Brodkey was a novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. He was born in Alton, Illinois, in 1930. He graduated from Harvard University. Brodkey worked briefly as a page at NBC before a story he had shown to an editor at The New Yorker was published in 1953. His first short-story collection vis mere "First Love and Other Stories" was published in 1958. Brodkey was also a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker. He became legendary for a novel that he spent much of his adult life writing with parts being published in his 1988 short-story collection, Stories in an Almost Classical Mode before it was finally published as The Runaway Soul. In 1993, Brodkey announced to the readers of The New Yorker that he had AIDS. He chronicled his illness in a diary that was published in The New Yorker. Harold Brodkey died on January 26, 1996. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: Artist: Howard Coale for The New Yorker, 1995
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Værker af Harold Brodkey
Innocence 3 eksemplarer
Brodkey Harold 1 eksemplar
Avedon Photographs 1947-1977 1 eksemplar
Spring Fugue 1 eksemplar
Contabilità (in Storie in modo quasi classico) 1 eksemplar
Pubertà (in Storie in modo quasi classico) 1 eksemplar
Gioco (in Storie in modo quasi classico) 1 eksemplar
Sulle onde (in Storie in modo quasi classico) 1 eksemplar
Questo buio feroce (storia della mia morte) 1 eksemplar
The State of Grace 1 eksemplar
A Poem About Testimony And Argument 1 eksemplar
Partisan Review 1976 Volume XLIII Number 1 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Bidragyder — 183 eksemplarer
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Bidragyder — 131 eksemplarer
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Bidragyder — 72 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Brodkey, Harold
- Andre navne
- Weintraub, Aaron Roy
- Fødselsdato
- 1930-10-25
- Dødsdag
- 1996-01-26
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Staunton, Illinois, USA
- Dødssted
- New York, New York, USA
- Bopæl
- New York, New York, USA
Venice, Italy - Uddannelse
- Harvard University (BA, 1952)
- Erhverv
- Staff Writer (1987 -)
- Relationer
- Schwamm, Ellen (wife)
- Organisationer
- The New Yorker
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
National Adademy in Rome Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship - Kort biografi
- HAROLD BRODKEY is the author of the novel The Runaway Soul, several collections of stories: First Love and Other Sorrows, Stories in an Almost Classical Mode, and The World Is the Home of Love and Death; travel writing: My Venice; essays: Sea Battles on Dry Land, and a memoir of his experience with AIDS, This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death. His many honors include two first-place O. Henry Prizes as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Adademy in Rome, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lived in New York City with his wife, the novelist Ellen Schwamm, until his death in 1996.
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This is his debut collection, containing the stories that launched his reputation and ultimately ill-fated career. The brilliance they contain lay in their close examination of the characters' inner states of mind, their thoughts and feelings and contradictory emotions. The collection is a story of two halves. The first four stories are of some length and concern Brodkey's youth in St. Louis and college years at Harvard. The final five stories are much shorter and are attempts at portraying a young woman and mother, I'm assuming modeled after Brodkey's older sister.
I enjoyed the first half much more than the second half, I must say. Brodkey had more to say in them and of course he had easy access to his own past mind to mine. He could describe his protagonist's state of inner feeling with crystal clarity. A 13 year old's insecurity and feeling of otherness is brilliantly portrayed in State of Grace and an account of a college age young man's spending a year cycling through France with a friend describes the peril that can arise from getting to know anyone too closely for too long with amusing aplomb in The Quarrel.
The second batch of stories he's trying to do the same with a literary stand in for his sister, whom he apparently thought of as shallow and incredibly vain. Sometimes it succeeds I think but for me he misses more often than he hits with these. I miss the feeling of authorial sympathy for his protagonist that the earlier stories have, and I think the length of these compared to the length of the earlier stories reflects that he didn't have as good a grasp on this character and was floundering a bit.
So then, Harold Brodkey, I hope this raising you to the forefront of my consciousness for this time has served to scratch whatever itch you planted at some past moment into my own mind. I'm sorry you've faded from fame so greatly, but hey, there's always the chance you'll get rediscovered, even for that novel to get reevaluated and declared an unjustly ignored classic. You never know.… (mere)