Background
Sobin, Gustaf Peter was born on November 15, 1935 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Arrived in France, 1962. Son of Newton Harrison and Rena (Pearl) Sobin.
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Interpreting vestige with the eloquence of a poet and the knowledge of a field archaeologist, Gustaf Sobin explores his elected terrain: the landscapes of Provence and Languedoc. Drawing on prehistory, protohistory, and Gallo-Roman antiquity, the twenty-six essays in this book focus on a particular place or artifact for the relevance inherent in each. A Bronze Age earring or the rippling wave pattern in Massiolite ceramic are more than archival curiosities for Sobin. Instead they invite inquiry and speculation on existence itself: Artifacts are read as realia, and history as an uninterrupted sequence of object lessons. As much travel writing as meditative discourse, Luminous Debris is enhanced by a prose that tracks, questions, and reflects on the materials invoked. Sobin engages the reader with precise descriptions of those very materials and the messages to be gleaned from their examination, be they existential, ethical, or political. An American expatriate living in Provence for the past thirty-five years, Gustaf Sobin shares his enthusiasm for his adopted landscape and for a vertical interpretation of its strata. In Luminous Debris he creates meaning out of matter and celebrates instances of reality, past and present.
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Comments from a devoted fan and memorabilia collector and the diary of a family member are combined in an attempt to analyze the off-screen life of the mysterious, elusive Hollywood starlet and bush pilot, Molly Lamanna. A first novel.
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Sobin, Gustaf Peter was born on November 15, 1935 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Arrived in France, 1962. Son of Newton Harrison and Rena (Pearl) Sobin.
Bachelor, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 958.
Professor creative writing Sarah Lawrence College, Lacoste, France, 1974-1980, Cleveland Institute Art, Lacoste, France, 1981-1996, Bard College, Lacoste, France, 1997-1998.
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Married Susanna Estelle Bott Sobin, March 2, 1968. Children: Esther Renee, Gabriel Olivier.