A career-spanning selection of James Purdy's fiction, including the titular short novel, Purdy's first. Not to be confused with 63 Dream Palace and Other Stories .
James Purdy Libros
17 de julio de 1914 – 13 de marzo de 2009
James Purdy es un autor cuya oscura y a menudo cómicamente salvaje ficción evoca un paisaje psíquico estadounidense de inocencia engañada, obsesión sexual, violencia y aislamiento. Su obra, traducida a más de 30 idiomas, profundiza en relaciones complejas y desentierra aspectos ocultos de la naturaleza humana. El estilo distintivo de Purdy captura las crudas realidades de la vida con una aguda inteligencia y una mirada satírica, ofreciendo a los lectores narrativas inquietantes pero cautivadoras.
The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy
- 726 páginas
- 26 horas de lectura
Celebrate an authentic American genius (Gore Vidal) in James Purdy's first complete short story collection.
Out with the Stars
- 200 páginas
- 7 horas de lectura
Following the discovery of an anonymous libretto, a composer comes out of retirement to write an opera based on the life of the infamous novelist-turned-photographer Cyril Vane. A dazzling novel by one of America’s most underrated writers.
Malcolm
- 158 páginas
- 6 horas de lectura
Long out of print, James Purdy's novel Malcolm, first published in 1959, established Purdy as "one of the greatest writers produced in America during the past hundred years" (Dame Edith Sitwell). Malcolm is the bizarre story of an innocent young man of 'exceptional beauty' who becomes involved in a series of comic and poignant adventures. Taken under the wing of a famous astrologer, an undertaker, a billionaire, a midget painter, a jazz queen, America's foremost chanteuse, and a tattoo artist, among others, Malcolm is led endlessly from protector to protector in search of his missing father, until the journey itself becomes his undoing.
Sechs Erzählungen von Purdy zeigen Figuren, die als "Kannibalen der Liebe" agieren. Sie finden keine ausgewogene Beziehung zu ihren Begierden und erleben kurzfristige Ruhe an verschiedenen Orten, sei es in einem Abbruchhaus oder einem Salon. Ihr Streben führt zu flüchtigem Glück, das jedoch nicht von Dauer ist.
