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Thema: Edmund White

Edmund Valentine White III
(* 13. Januar 1940 in Cincinnati, Ohio) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Essayist.

Er gilt als einer der wichtigsten schwulen Autoren des ausgehenden 20. und frühen 21. Jahrhunderts, ein großer Teil seiner Romane ist autobiographisch geprägt und schildern seine Erfahrungen als offen schwul lebender Mann in den USA und Frankreich.

Artikel zu Edmund White auf Wikipedia

Edmund White: The Flaneur

UK 2008, 214 pp., brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

White, who lived in Paris for 16 years, wanders through the avenues and along the quays, into parts of the city virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many locals, luring the reader into the fascinating and seductive backstreets of his personal Paris. The organizing principle is the combined force of White's perception, imagination, frame of reference and voice. He ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Hotel de Dream

UK 2008, 228 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

In 1900, Stephen Crane is writing a new story. He's travelling to a Black Forest clinic in search of a cure for the tuberculosis that threatens his life. He dictates to his wife the story of »The Painted Boy«, inspired by a real-life encounter with a 15-year-old newsboy, Elliott. In the story Elliott is both impressionable and elusive. He finds ... Weiterlesen

Richard Canning (ed.): Between Men

USA 2007, 335 pp., brochure, € 14.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Original fiction by Edmund White, Andrew Holleran, James McCourt, Dale Peck, Bruce Benderson, and other leading gay authors. Certain to become a cornerstone of the gay literary tradition, this anthology brings together new and unpublished stories from 18 of today's best gay writers. Edmund White delves into 19th-century Manhattan, imagining an encounter between author Stephen Crane and »The Painted Boy«. ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: My Lives

UK 2006, 368 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury

No one has ever been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, White takes the fiction out of his story and delivers the facts in all their shocking and absorbing verity. From an adolescence in the 1950s, an era that tried to »cure« homosexuality, he ... Weiterlesen

Keith Fleming: Original Youth

The Real Story of Edmund White's Boyhood. USA 2003, 168 pp., cloth, € 19.39
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

The story of Edmund White's own boyhood is written by his nephew Keith Fleming: untangling the weirdness and extent of his young sex life, the depth of both his occasional despair and treachery, and the intellectual and artistic brilliance that White displayed so early on. Forced from the age of 3 to be the best friend and »advisor« to his ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: The Married Man

USA 2001, 310 pp, pb, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage

A middle aged American works out in a Paris gym - an ordinary day, except that he catches the eye of a stranger, Julien, a young French architect with a gleam in his eye. To Austin's amused astonishment, life takes on the colour of romance. As they dash between Bohemian suppers and glittering salons, all they have to deal with ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: The Farewell Symphony

USA 1997, 413 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Following »A Boy's Own Story« (now a classic of American fiction) and his richly acclaimed »The Beautiful Room Is Empty«, this is the eagerly awaited final volume of Edmund White's groundbreaking autobiographical trilogy. Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave the stage one after another until only a single violin remains playing, this is the story ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Genet

A Biography. USA 1994, 728 pp., brochure, € 39.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Vintage

Bastard, thief, prostitute, jailbird, homosexual, rebel, Jean Genet was one of French literature's sacred monsters. In works from »Our Lady of the Flowers« to »The Screens«, he created a scandalous personal mythology while savaging the conventions of his society. His career was a series of calculated shocks marked by feuds, rootlessness, and the embrace of unpopular causes and outcast peoples. ... Weiterlesen

Bert Büllmann: Vom Ghetto in die Gesellschaft

Der amerikanische homosexuelle Roman der 80er Jahre. D 1991, 175 S., Broschur, € 12.85
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Verlag rosa Winkel - Homosexualität und Literatur 5

Die vorliegende Untersuchung sellt den amerikanischen homosexuellen Roman in seinen bedeutendsten Vertretern zum Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts dar, u.a. Andrew Holleran, David Leavitt und Edmund White. Hauptthema ist die Frage nach den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer gesellschaftlichen Integration der Homosexuellen, dargestellt am Verhältnis zur Familie und zur schwulen Geschichte sowie an der Bedrohung durch AIDS.