Background
Sukenick, Ronald was born on July 14, 1932 in Brooklyn.
( A group of people, trying to contend with the failure o...)
A group of people, trying to contend with the failure of hope that took place at the end of the sixties, withdraws from what they call "The Dynasty of the Million Lies" and creates a settlement in the woods of the far west. These refugees from our culture, trying to live a healthy, normal life as pioneers of a latter-day frontier, find they are forced to pay heavily for thier retreat in terms of sexuality, death and insanity. The novel consists of three parts: "Frankenstein", "The Children of Frankenstein" and "Palestine." The first section is a disjointed documentary collage expressing the violent chaos of the culture, the second is a narrative about the settlement with its communal and sexual experimentation, and the third, "Palestine," is a utopian vision of Isreal that takes place on a perfect kibbutz in which all problems are solved. 98.6 is a novel that marks the end of a generation of hope without giving in to hopelessness.
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(In Narralogues, Ronald Sukenick continues his important a...)
In Narralogues, Ronald Sukenick continues his important and original contributions to the cutting edge of contemporary fiction. Here he proposes fiction as a medium for telling the truth, while recognizing that the implicit contradiction in these terms is more than cheap paradox. The "narralogues," simultaneously narrative and argument, story and rhetorical pleading, exemplify and argue for fiction as persuasion in a sequence that moves from Socratic dialogue to outright narrative, using throughout all the traditional techniques of fiction, from comedy and irony to suspense and the erotic.
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( Originally published in 1969, The Death of the Novel an...)
Originally published in 1969, The Death of the Novel and Other Stories remains among the most memorable creations of an unforgettable age. Irrepressibly experimental in both content and form, these anti-fictions set out to rescue experience from its containment within artistic convention and bourgeois morality. Equal parts high modernist aesthete and borscht belt comedian, Sukenick joins avant-garde art with street slang and cartoons, expressing his generation's anxieties by simultaneously mocking and validating them. These are original works by a writer who will try absolutely anything.
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Sukenick, Ronald was born on July 14, 1932 in Brooklyn.
Bachelor, Cornell University, 1955. Doctor of Philosophy, Brandeis University, 1962.
Instructor Hofstra University, 1961—1962. Assistant professor City University of New York, 1966—1967, Sarah Lawrence College, 1968—1969. Writer-in-residence Cornell University, 1969—1970, University California, Irvine, 1970—1972.
Professor English University Colorado, Boulder, 1974—2002, director creative writing, 1974—1977, director publications center, 1986—1999. Director FC2/Black Ice Books, Normal, Illinois, 1985-2004.
(On an island composed of fragments from an international ...)
( A group of people, trying to contend with the failure o...)
( Originally published in 1969, The Death of the Novel an...)
(A novel modeled on the books of the Old Testament retells...)
(In Narralogues, Ronald Sukenick continues his important a...)
(Interconnected, avant-garde stories offer a fresh look at...)
(bohemian beat rock and punk in American culture)
Married Lynn Luria, 1961 (divorced 1984), Julia B. Frey, 1992.