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Nelson Algren

Entrapment and Other Writings

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Nelson Algren sought humanity in the urban wilderness of postwar America, where his powerful voice rose from behind the billboards and down tin-can alleys, from among the marginalized and ignored, the outcasts and scapegoats, the punks and junkies, the whores and down-on-their luck gamblers, the punch-drunk boxers and skid-row drunkies and kids who knew they'd never reach the age of twenty-one: all of them admirable in Algren's eyes for their vitality and no-bullshit forthrightness, their insistence on living and their ability to find a laugh and a dream in the unlikeliest places.In Entrapment and Other Writings—containing his unfinished nove… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Horvath, Brooke (Hrsg.) / Simon, Dan (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-58322-941-5
  • EAN: 9781583229415
  • Produktnummer: 15732880
  • Verlag: Seven Stories Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'390 KB

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One of the most neglected of modern American authors and also one of the best loved, NELSON ALGREN (1909-1981) believed that literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. His own voluminous body of work stands up to that belief. Algren's powerful voice rose from the urban wilderness of postwar Chicago, and it is to that city of hustlers, addicts and scamps that he returned again and again, eventually raising Chicago's lower depths up onto a stage for the whole world to behold. Recipient of the first National Book Award for fiction and lauded by Hemingway as one of the two best authors in America, Algren remains among our most defiant and enduring novelists. His work includes five major novels, two short fiction collections, a book-length poem and several collections of reportage. A source of inspiration to artists as diverse as Kurt Vonnegut and Donald Barthelme, Studs Terkel and Lou Reed, Algren died on May 9, 1981, within days of his appointment as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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