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Nov 22, 2023 · Gilbert Sorrentino’s Mulligan Stew is one of the Great Comic Novels and a hack-seeking exocet missile in the War Against Cliché. The novel recasts Antony Lamont from Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds as an arrogant, self-described avant-garde novelist, chronicling his hilarious descent into writerly oblivion.
Mar 20, 2024 · In relation to his earlier fictions—Imaginative Qualities, Splendide-Hôtel, and Mulligan Stew—Gilbert Sorrentino’s Aberration of Starlight is perplexing, not in terms of linguistic style or content, but in its unabashed use of modernist structures and other narrative techniques.
Mar 20, 2024 · As a long fiction and short story writer, an essayist, poet, and teacher, Gilbert Sorrentino has several personas; and in his short stories he uses many voices, but there are two opposing voices I’d like briefly to explore.
Aug 7, 2023 · Widely regarded as Sorrentino’s finest achievement, Mulligan Stew takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist Antony Lamont struggles to write a “new wave murder mystery,” his frustrating emotional and sexual life wreaks havoc on his work-in-progress.
May 17, 2024 · "Sorrentino, Gilbert" published on by Oxford University Press. His first novel, The Sky Changes (1966), is a parody telling of an unhappily married couple driving across the U.S. on a “second honeymoon” that ends when she leaves him.
Feb 14, 2024 · The Moon In Its Flight by Gilbert Sorrentino, 1971. The magic trick: Nostalgic romantic narrative, told with a cynical narration. Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s a love story so good it’s guaranteed to destroy you. It’s a story about love and memory and regret and overwhelming sadness. But it’s told with an aggressive narrative voice.
Dec 3, 2023 · Golden Handcuffs Review has an excerpt from Gilbert Sorrentino's last novel, The Abyss of Human Illusion, completed a mere month after Sorrentino died. They've also been kind enough to include Christopher Sorrentino's afterword, in which Sorrentino spills,
Dec 13, 2023 · Mulligan Stew by Gilbert Sorrentino, 1979, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated edition, in English - 1st ed.
Dec 3, 2023 · For over four decades, Gilbert Sorrentino has produced brilliant, penetrating essays and reviews, each one an uncompromising statement of what is good - and what is not - in literature and culture.
Dec 3, 2023 · Lunar Follies offers fifty-three self-contained art-world snippets, each one entirely the product of Sorrentino’s imagination and each depicting a creative venture that seems wearily familiar—that is to say, the pits.
