William Gass
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William Howard Gass (né le 30 juillet 1924) est un écrivain américain.
Professeur de philosophie à l'Université Washington de Saint Louis, William Gass a été notamment marqué par l'enseignement de Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Considéré comme l'un des plus grands écrivains de sa génération, aux États-Unis, on lui doit deux romans, Omensetter's Luck (1966) et The Tunnel (Le Tunnel, traduit en français par Claro), récompensé par l'American Book Award en 1995. Il est également l'auteur de trois recueils de nouvelles, sept volumes d'essais (dont trois ont remporté le National Book Critics Circle Award) et de critiques.
Œuvres
Fiction
- Omensetter's Luck (1966)
- In The Heart of the Heart of the Country (1968)
- Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife (1968)
- The First Winter of My Married Life (1979)
- Culp (1985)
- The Tunnel (1995)
- Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas (1998)
- Middle C (en cours d'écriture)
Autres
- Fiction and the Figures of Life (1970)
- On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry (1976)
- The World Within the Word (1978)
- Habitations of the Word (1984)
- Finding a Form: Essays (1997)
- Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation (1999)
- Tests of Time (2002)
- Conversations With William H. Gass (2003)
- A Temple of Texts (2006)
Liens externes
- Les archives de William Gass à l'Université Washington de Saint Louis:[1]
- Un site pour les lecteurs de William Gass, Tunneling: [2]
Catégories :
- Écrivain américain du XXe siècle
- Naissance en 1924
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