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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel de Alexander Chee

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

Autor Alexander Chee
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 apr 2018

Începem prin a sublinia autoritatea lui Alexander Chee, un scriitor care și-a consolidat reputația în literatura americană contemporană nu doar ca romancier, ci și ca profesor asociat la Dartmouth College. Această dublă ipostază, de artist și pedagog, fundamentează volumul How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, o colecție de eseuri care funcționează ca un manifest despre intersecția dintre viață, politică și artă. Descoperim aici un parcurs intelectual și personal riguros, în care Chee analizează modul în care identitățile noastre — fie că vorbim despre cea de fiu, bărbat gay, coreeano-american sau activist — sunt modelate de experiențe limită și de actul scrierii. Remarcăm structura hibridă a lucrării, care transcende manualul tehnic de scriere creativă pentru a deveni o meditație profundă asupra memoriei. Autorul trece de la momente istorice colective, precum criza SIDA sau atacurile de la 11 septembrie, la detalii biografice neconvenționale, cum ar fi perioada în care a practicat cititul în cărți de Tarot pentru a-și susține cariera literară. Această abordare este o evoluție firească a temelor explorate în romanele sale anterioare, precum Edinburgh, unde trauma și identitatea erau filtrate prin lentila ficțiunii. Reținem că această colecție reprezintă o alternativă valoroasă la The Fiction of Autobiography de Dr. Micaela Maftei pentru cursurile de eseistică și scriere creativă. În timp ce lucrarea lui Maftei analizează teoretic relația dintre adevăr și autoritate, volumul lui Chee aduce avantajul practicii directe, oferind o perspectivă subiectivă, dar extrem de lucidă, asupra modului în care experiența de viață este transformată în material literar. Este o explorare a vulnerabilității care a fost validată prin numeroase premii, inclusiv Randy Shilts Award.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781328764522
ISBN-10: 1328764524
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 137 x 207 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Harpercollins
Locul publicării:United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru scriitorii aflați la început de drum și pentru cititorii interesați de procesul creativ. Alexander Chee oferă mai mult decât tehnici de scriere; el demonstrează cum auto-analiza onestă poate transforma experiențele personale în literatură universală. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care arta poate servi drept instrument de supraviețuire și de definire a identității într-o lume în continuă schimbare.

Despre autor

Alexander Chee este un scriitor și eseist american de prestigiu, recompensat cu Whiting Award pentru romanul său de debut, Edinburgh. Cu o educație solidă și o carieră academică activă ca profesor la Dartmouth College, Chee a devenit o voce influentă în jurnalismul literar, fiind editor la The New Republic și Virginia Quarterly Review. Opera sa, care include și bestsellerul The Queen of the Night, explorează adesea teme legate de identitatea queer, experiența imigranților și puterea narativă. Recunoașterea sa internațională este dublată de prezența constantă în antologii precum The Best American Essays, confirmându-i statutul de maestru al formei scurte.

Descriere scurtă

Named a Best Book of 2018 by New York Magazine, the Washington Post, Publisher's Weekly, NPR, and Time, among many others, this essay collection from the author of The Queen of the Night explores how we form identities in life and in art.

As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incendiary” by the New York Times, and "brilliant" by the Washington Post. With his first collection of nonfiction, he’s sure to secure his place as one of the finest essayists of his generation as well.

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the lessons learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed him. In these essays, he grows from student to teacher, reader to writer, and reckons with his identities as a son, a gay man, a Korean American, an artist, an activist, a lover, and a friend. He examines some of the most formative experiences of his life and the nation’s history, including his father’s death, the AIDS crisis, 9/11, the jobs that supported his writing ​— ​Tarot-reading, bookselling, cater-waiting for William F. Buckley ​— ​the writing of his first novel, Edinburgh, and the election of Donald Trump.

By turns commanding, heartbreaking, and wry, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel asks questions about how we create ourselves in life and in art, and how to fight when our dearest truths are under attack.

Named a Best Book by: Time, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, New York Public Library, Boston Globe, Paris Review, Mother Jones,The A.V. Club, Out Magazine, Book Riot, Electric Literature, PopSugar, The Rumpus, My Republica, Paste, Bitch, Library Journal, Flavorwire, Bustle, Christian Science Monitor, Shelf Awareness, Tor.com, Entertainment Cheat Sheet, Roads and Kingdoms, Chicago Public Library, Hyphen Magazine, Entropy Magazine, Chicago Review of Books, The Coil, iBooks, and Washington Independent Review of Books

Winner of the Publishing Triangle's Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction * Recipient of the Lambda Literary Trustees' Award *
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay * Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography

Recenzii

Praise for How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Named a Best Book by: TIME, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, New York Public Library, Boston Globe, The Paris Review, Mother Jones,The A.V. Club, Out Magazine, Book Riot, Electric Literature,PopSugar, The Rumpus, My Republica, Paste, Bitch,Library Journal,Flavorwire, Bustle, Christian Science Monitor,Shelf Awareness, Tor.com, Entertainment Cheat Sheet, Roads and Kingdoms, Chicago Public Library, Hyphen Magazine, Entropy Magazine,The Chicago Review of Books, The Coil, iBooks, and Washington Independent Review of Books  Winner of the Publishing Triangle's Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction  Recipient of the Lambda Literary Trustees' Award  Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay  Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography  Finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing in Nonfiction  Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Nonfiction  One of Min Jin Lee's Summer Reads in the Washington Post One of Curtis Sittenfeld's Summer Reads in the Guardian A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of 2018   "Alexander Chee is one of the best living writers of today. If he’s not already a household name, he needs to be…powerful, powerful essays with powerful, powerful words…" —Buzzfeed's Isaac Fitzgerald, on NBC's TODAY   "If writing, too, is a form of drag for Chee, it is also an act of mystic invocation and transference...Chee leavens his heaviest topics—the decimation of the gay community in the late 1980s and early ’90s, the repressed memory of sexual abuse that inspired Edinburgh—with charming episodes like his stint as a waiter at William and Pat Buckley’s Park Avenue maisonette, a job that prompted a crisis of conscience given Buckley’s infamous proposal to brand AIDS patients on their wrists and buttocks...Even at his most mystical, Chee is generous; these pieces are personal, never pedagogical. They bespeak an unguarded sincerity and curiosity. Chee is refreshingly open about his sometimes liberating, sometimes claustrophobic sense of exceptionality...He reminds us that whomever a writer pictures as his audience, he is also writing into absence, standing in testimony for the sake of the dead. Like most of the essays here, 'After Peter' pulses with urgency, one piece from a life in restless motion. It is not necessary to agree that How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is itself a kind of novel in order to appreciate that Chee has written a moving and personal tribute to impermanence, a wise and transgressive meditation on a life lived both because of and in spite of America, a place where, he writes, you are allowed to speak the truth as long as nothing changes.'" —New York Times Book Review   "Two-thirds of the way through Alexander Chee's How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, I abandoned my sharpened reviewer's pencil in favor of luxuriating in the words. Chee's writing has a mesmerizing quality; his sentences are rife with profound truths without lapsing into the didactic...Chee is a very special artist; his writing is lyrical and accessible, whimsical and sad, often all at the same time. No doubt he is an inspiring writing teacher as well. His views on writing reflect his own, thoughtfully examined life." 

Notă biografică

ALEXANDER CHEE is the best-selling author of the novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh, and the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic, and an editor at large at Virginia Quarterly Review. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays 2016, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, T Magazine, Slate, Vulture, among others. He is winner of a 2003 Whiting Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in prose and a 2010 MCCA Fellowship, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Civitella Ranieri and Amtrak. He is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College.