Selected Letters, 1932-1981
Author | : John Fante |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : 9780876858325 |
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Author | : John Fante |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : 9780876858325 |
Author | : John Fante |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 537 |
Release | : 2010-08-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062013092 |
Fante's captivating letters trace his emergence from poverty to life as a Hollywood screenwriter. Complemented by many photos and interesting appendices, the book is most distinguished by Fante's letters to his mother-letters in which he is just as apt to lie about church attendance as he is to describe, with peculiar candor, skinny-dipping with a girl friend.
Author | : Richard Collins |
Publisher | : Guernica Editions |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781550710717 |
John Fante, an important figure in the history of the Italian-American novel, is proving to be fascinating to contemporary readers. Richard Collins has caught Fante's spirit from several crucial angles: as an ethnic writer; as a comic novelist; as a serious writer struggling to remain so in Hollywood. Intelligent, balanced, informative, and empathetic, this book combines criticism with scholarship, and biography with history to make what Henry James would have called a perfect 'literary portrait,' for it gives life to an interesting subject.
Author | : Stephen Cooper |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838637784 |
Over the span of a half-century - from the early 1930s to the early 1980s - the Italian-American Fante (1909-1983) wrote short stories and novels that drew on his own life from his Catholic childhood in Colorado through his down-and-out days in Los Angeles, to his adventures as a screenwriter in Hollywood. He writes about all these things with gusto, humor, directness, and an honesty tinged with the irony of a true modernist."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Stephen Cooper |
Publisher | : Fordham University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0823287882 |
This volume assembles for the first time a staggering multiplicity of reflections and readings of John Fante’s 1939 classic, Ask the Dust, a true testament to the work’s present and future impact. The contributors to this work—writers, critics, fans, scholars, screenwriters, directors, and others—analyze the provocative set of diaspora tensions informing Fante’s masterpiece that distinguish it from those accounts of earlier East Coast migrations and minglings. A must-read for aficionados of L.A. fiction and new migration literature, John Fante’s “Ask the Dust”: A Joining of Voices and Views is destined for landmark status as the first volume of Fante studies to reveal the novel’s evolving intertextualities and intersectionalities. Contributors: Miriam Amico, Charles Bukowski, Stephen Cooper, Giovanna DiLello, John Fante, Valerio Ferme, Teresa Fiore, Daniel Gardner, Philippe Garnier, Robert Guffey, Ryan Holiday, Jan Louter, Chiara Mazzucchelli, Meagan Meylor, J’aime Morrison, Nathan Rabin, Alan Rifkin, Suzanne Manizza Roszak, Danny Shain, Robert Towne, Joel Williams
Author | : John Fante |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Fante |
Publisher | : Harper Perennial |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2002-12-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780060959487 |
It's not every day that a writer, almost unheard of in his lifetime, emerges twenty years after his death as a voice of his generation. But then again, there aren't many writers with such irrepressible genius as John Fante. The John Fante Reader is the important next step in the reintroduction of this influential author to modern audiences. Combining excerpts from his novels and stories, as well as his never-before-published letters, this collection is the perfect primer on the work of a writer -- underappreciated in his time -- who is finally taking his place in the pantheon of twentieth-century American writers.
Author | : Catherine J. Kordich |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Fante's depiction of the Italian American experience in California, in novels and novellas like Full of Life and My Dog Stupid, has been recognized as part of the national drama of assimilation and ethnicity. Kordich looks at the life and works of Fante, whose long underground fame has evolved into a mainstream literary readership.
Author | : Reid Sherline |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : |
Selection of letters written to mothers over six centuries by twentyseven important literary figures.
Author | : Charles Reznikoff |
Publisher | : David R. Godine Publisher |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781574232035 |
Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976), the son of Russian garment workers, was an American original: a blood-and-bone New Yorker, a collector of images and stories who walked the city from the Bronx to the Battery and breathed the soul of the Jewish immigrant experience into a lifetime of poetry. He wrote narrative poems based on Old Testament sources. Above all, he wrote spare, intensely visual, epigrammatic poems, a kind of urban haiku. The language of these short poems is as plain as bread and salt, their imagery as crisp and unambiguous as a Charles Sheeler photograph. But their meaning is only hinted at: it is there in the selection of details, and in the music of the verse. Reznikoff was sincere and objective, a poet of great feeling who strove to honor the world by describing it precisely. He also strove to keep his feelings out of his poetry. He did not confess, he did not pose, he did not cultivate a myth of himself. Instead he created art-an unadorned art in praise of the world that God and men have made-and invited readers to bring their own feelings to it. In an age of ephemera, of first drafts rushed into print and soon forgotten, Reznikoff's poetry is a sturdy, well-wrought thing-"a girder, still itself / among the rubble." A timeless testament-impersonal, incorruptible, undeniably American-it will survive every change in literary fashion. Book jacket.