Background
Mathews, Harry Burchell was born on February 14, 1930 in New York City. Son of Edward James and Mary (Burchell) Mathews.
( The subject of this unique book of short fiction is mas...)
The subject of this unique book of short fiction is masturbation, a practice both universal and virtually taboo. In sixty-one vignettes, Mathews records the imaginative varieties of this solitary activity in prose that is playful, intimate, urgent, quirky, and humane.
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(For a period of just over a year, Harry Mathews set about...)
For a period of just over a year, Harry Mathews set about following Stendhal’s dictum for writers of “twenty lines a day, genius or not.” What resulted is a book that is part journal, parts writer’s manual, and part genius. First undertaken as a kind of discipline, the work molds itself into a penetrating reflection on daily events in Mathews’s life, his friends, himself, and the act of writing.
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(A brilliant comedy in the form of letters exchanged betwe...)
A brilliant comedy in the form of letters exchanged between a husband, living in Miami of the not-too-distant future, and a wife, living in Italy of a not-too-remote past, as they try to trace the whereabouts of a treasure supposedly lost off the coast of Florida in the 16th century.
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Composed of a series of letters between a husband and wife, ?"The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium"?is a brilliant comedy about love and longing, dashed hopes and frustrations, and trying to make connections. Newly wedded Zachary McCaltex (a librarian in Miami) and Twang Panattapam (originally from the Southeast-Asian country of Pan-Nam, but residing in Italy) try to trace the whereabouts of a treasure supposedly lost off the coast of Florida in the sixteenth century, while navigating a relationship separated by an ocean as well as their different cultures. In the end, the postal service may be responsible for what gets lost (including Zachary's sanity) along the way.
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(This novel begins in a Russian prison camp at a baseball ...)
This novel begins in a Russian prison camp at a baseball game featuring the defective Baptists versus the Fideists. There is a plot (of sorts), one of revenge surrounding a doctor who, in removing a bone spur from our narrator, manages to amputate a ring and index finger, a significant surgical error considering that the narrator is, or was, a violinist. When Dr. Roak is released from prison, our narrator escapes in order to begin the pursuit, and thus begins a digressive journey from Afghanistan to Venice, then on to India and Morocco and France. All of this takes place amid Mathews's fictional concern and play with games, puzzles, arcana, and stories within stories.
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Mathews, Harry Burchell was born on February 14, 1930 in New York City. Son of Edward James and Mary (Burchell) Mathews.
Bachelor cum laude, Harvard College, 1952.
Faculty Bennington College, Vermont, 1978-1980. Visiting lecturer Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 1979, Columbia College, New York City, 1982-1983. Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1992.
French Institute, London, 1996. Visiting writer Brown University, Providence, 1988, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1990, Magdalene College, Cambridge, England, 1992, Berliner Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin, 1994, Duke University, 1996, New College of California, Brown University, San Francisco Art Institute, 1997, Key West Literary Seminar, 1999, Key West Writers Workshops, 2000, New School University, 2002—2005. Regents lecturer University California, San Diego, 2001.
Founding director Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, Massachusetts. Board directors Dalkey Archive Press. Lecturer in field at national, international colls, art centers and institutions.
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( Composed of a series of letters between a husband and w...)
(For a period of just over a year, Harry Mathews set about...)
(This novel begins in a Russian prison camp at a baseball ...)
( The subject of this unique book of short fiction is mas...)
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Member Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Paris), Bielefelder Colloquium Neuer Poesie.
Married Niki de Saint Phalle, June 6, 1949 (divorced 1964). 2 children; Married Marie Chaix, July 29, 1992.