Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)
Autor von Because I Was Flesh: The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg
Ãœber den Autor
Werke von Edward Dahlberg
The sorrows of Priapus; consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth (1972) 34 Exemplare
Bottom dogs, From Flushing to Calvary, Those who perish, and hitherto unpublished and uncollected works (1976) 31 Exemplare
From Flushing to Calvary 7 Exemplare
Truth is more sacred. A critical exchange on modern literature: James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Henry James, Robert… (1961) 7 Exemplare
CipangoÕs Hinder Door 6 Exemplare
In Love, In Sorrow: The Complete Correspondence of Charles Olson and Edward Dahlberg (1990) 4 Exemplare
Reasons of the Heart 4 Exemplare
Mia madre Lizzie 1 Exemplar
For Edward Dahlberg 1 Exemplar
the 1 Exemplar
Freeman 1 Exemplar
Nimbus 1 Exemplar
Kentucky Blue Grass Henry Smith 1 Exemplar
Moby Dick-An Hamitic Dream 1 Exemplar
Zugehörige Werke
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Mitwirkender — 407 Exemplare
Years of Protest: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's (1967) — Mitwirkender — 39 Exemplare
Sulfur 3 — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Dahlberg, Edward
- Geburtstag
- 1900-07-22
- Todestag
- 1977-02-27
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Sterbeort
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Wohnorte
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Bornholm, Denmark
Mallorca, Spain
Greenwich Village, New York, USA - Ausbildung
- University of California, Berkeley
Columbia University (BS|Philosophy) - Berufe
- essayist
novelist
autobiographer - Organisationen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1968)
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1961)
National Institute of Arts and Letters (1968)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1976)
Mitglieder
Diskussionen
Edward Dahlberg and the Killer Sentence in Book talk (April 2016)
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Epitaphs of our times; the letters of Edward Dahlberg von Edward Dahlberg
Edward Dahlberg had been brought up in the lower levels of the USA in the 1920's and his writings brought him a rewarding life for half a century. Many famous names are found in this selection.
A novel about the brutalities of orphanage life. Mr. Dahlberg was a clear writer, and quite prominent in American Expatriate life in Paris.
A revelatory masterpiece that I have had on my shelves for forty-one years without reading; just as much an autobiography of Dahlberg's early years as it is a portrait of his hapless mother. She brought up Edward working as a "lady barber" in Kansas City at the beginnings of the twentieth century. Lizzie Dahlberg emerges as a fabulous figure, so beautifully wrought by her son's descriptions of the enduring love he holds for her, despite disgust, pity, poverty and the hopelessness of the men in her life.
There is much humour here as well, including this gem of a sentence:
"After all, he had answered her matrimonial advertisement and his second visit, like the first, was already so prolix that again she realized she would be too tired after he left to take an enema."
It is time to revive Edward Dahlberg. He was put down by that professional Irishman, Frank McCourt who concocted "Angela's Ashes". He held modern writing as rubbish. Dahlberg had such a store of classical, mythological and theological knowledge that his story glistens with spectacular allusions.
Read this man, buy his books. Demand his resurrection.… (mehr)
There is much humour here as well, including this gem of a sentence:
"After all, he had answered her matrimonial advertisement and his second visit, like the first, was already so prolix that again she realized she would be too tired after he left to take an enema."
It is time to revive Edward Dahlberg. He was put down by that professional Irishman, Frank McCourt who concocted "Angela's Ashes". He held modern writing as rubbish. Dahlberg had such a store of classical, mythological and theological knowledge that his story glistens with spectacular allusions.
Read this man, buy his books. Demand his resurrection.… (mehr)
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ivanfranko | Apr 22, 2016 |
ivanfranko | Apr 22, 2016 | 
What an odd book! A melancholy erudite prolix meditation on the follies of the drive to procreation, or rather, the act of procreation.
Perhaps it is more profound than that. But after an initial flush of pleasure I found it tedious.
Perhaps it is more profound than that. But after an initial flush of pleasure I found it tedious.
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