My Life in CIA
A Chronicle of 1973
Will be published approx. on 5. March 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
203 pages
978-1-56478-392-9 (ISBN)
Description
"It's outrageous that an educated man and a gifted writer like Mr. Mathews could make such a public confession of such shameful activities." Q. Kuhlmann, author of The Eye of Anguish: Subversive Activity in the German Democratic Republic
Reviews / Votes
"Harry Mathews is the only American author I know whose utter originality does not erode his heart and his content." - Ned Rorem"One of the most remarkable prose stylists presently writing in English." - San Francisco Chronicle
"It's outrageous that an educated man and a gifted writer like Mr. Mathews could make such a public confession of such shameful activities." - Q. Kuhlmann, author of The Eye of Anguish: Subversive Activity in the German Democratic Republic
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
285 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56478-392-9 (9781564783929)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
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).