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20 Lines a Day
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20 Lines a Day

BookPaperback
Ranking1197961inBelletristik
CHF16.90

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For a period of just over a year, Harry Mathews set about following Stendhal¿s dictum for writers of ¿twenty lines a day, genius or not.¿ What resulted is a book that is part journal, parts writer¿s manual, and part genius. First undertaken as a kind of discipline, the work molds itself into a penetrating reflection on daily events in Mathews¿s life, his friends, himself, and the act of writing.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-56478-168-0
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
Publishing date01/12/1989
SeriesAmerican Literature
Pages134 pages
LanguageEnglish
Article no.2292047
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.9822448
Product groupBelletristik
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Born in New York in 1930, Harry Mathews settled in Europe in 1952 and has since then lived in Spain, Germany, Italy, and (chiefly) France. When Mathews published his first poems in 1956, he was associated with the so-called New York School of poets, with three of whom (John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler) he founded the review Locus Solus in 1961. Through his friendship with Georges Perec, he became a member of the Oulipo in 1972. The author of six novels and several collections of poetry, recent publications are THE NEW TOURISM (Sand Paper Press, 2010), Sainte Catherine, a novella written in French (Editions P.O.L, 2000), The Human Country: the Collected Short Stories (Dalkey Archive Press, 2002), The Case of the Persevering Maltese: Collected Essays (Dalkey Archive Press, 2003), OULIPO COMPENDIUM (co-edited with Alastair Brotchie; Atlas Press and Make Now Press, 2005), and My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 (Dalkey Archive Press, 2005).