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Edmund White

Auteur de Un jeune Américain

60+ oeuvres 11,459 utilisateurs 180 critiques 39 Favoris

A propos de l'auteur

Author Edmund White was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on January 13, 1940. He majored in Chinese at the University of Michigan. Before spending a year in Rome, he worked for Time-Life Books from 1962 until 1970. Upon his return, he became an editor for The Saturday Review and Horizon. He lived in France afficher plus from 1983 until 1990. His works have chronicled gay life with such books as A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

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Œuvres de Edmund White

Un jeune Américain (1982) 1,742 exemplaires
The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) 982 exemplaires
La Symphonie des adieux (1997) 590 exemplaires
Marcel Proust (1999) 587 exemplaires
Genet (1993) 512 exemplaires
L'Homme marié (2000) 510 exemplaires
Mes vies : Une autobiographie (2005) 411 exemplaires
Hotel de Dream (2007) 384 exemplaires
City Boy : Chronique new-yorkaise (2009) 360 exemplaires
La tendresse sur la peau (1995) 358 exemplaires
The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction (1992) — Directeur de publication — 319 exemplaires
Nocturnes pour le roi de Naples (1978) 311 exemplaires
La bibliothèque qui brûle (1994) 286 exemplaires
Oublier Elena (1973) — Auteur — 260 exemplaires
Rimbaud. La double vie d'un rebelle (2008) 236 exemplaires
Le héros effarouché (1985) 225 exemplaires
Jack Holmes and His Friend (2012) 224 exemplaires
Fanny, A Fiction (2003) 223 exemplaires
Our Paris: Sketches from Memory (1994) 204 exemplaires
Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris (2014) 151 exemplaires
Our Young Man (2016) 133 exemplaires
Chaos: A Novella and Stories (2007) 100 exemplaires
Arts and Letters (2004) 77 exemplaires
A Saint from Texas (2020) 74 exemplaires
A Previous Life (2022) 49 exemplaires
The Humble Lover (2023) 38 exemplaires
Sacred Monsters (2011) 35 exemplaires
Terre Haute (2007) 8 exemplaires
Steve Wolfe (2003) 3 exemplaires
Record Time {story} (2002) 2 exemplaires
Il giovane Gatsby 1 exemplaire
Ada Öyküleri {stories} (2017) 1 exemplaire
Aaron Copland 1 exemplaire
Feliz Mendelssohn 1 exemplaire
Shrinks 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

Le portrait de Dorian Gray (1890) — Introduction, quelques éditions39,292 exemplaires
Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories (1996) — Contributeur — 396 exemplaires
Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books (2011) — Contributeur — 379 exemplaires
The Stonewall Reader (2019) — Avant-propos; Contributeur — 338 exemplaires
Un captif amoureux (1986) — Introduction, quelques éditions338 exemplaires
The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories (1994) — Contributeur — 317 exemplaires
Men on Men: Best New Gay Fiction (1986) — Contributeur — 235 exemplaires
Granta 84: Over There: How America Sees the World (2004) — Contributeur — 229 exemplaires
Paris Was Ours (2011) — Contributeur — 224 exemplaires
Flesh and the Word: An Anthology of Erotic Writing (1992) — Contributeur — 193 exemplaires
Une république lumineuse (2017) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions190 exemplaires
The New Joy of Gay Sex (1992) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions188 exemplaires
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Contributeur — 174 exemplaires
Granta 88: Mothers (2004) — Contributeur — 163 exemplaires
Belchamber (1904) — Introduction, quelques éditions161 exemplaires
The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature (1998) — Contributeur — 158 exemplaires
Granta 27: Death (1989) — Contributeur — 151 exemplaires
Men on Men 2000: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium (2000) — Contributeur — 150 exemplaires
Granta 67: Women and Children First (1999) — Contributeur — 143 exemplaires
L'armée du salut (2006) — Introduction, quelques éditions140 exemplaires
Granta 71: Shrinks (2000) — Contributeur — 136 exemplaires
Granta 78: Bad Company (2002) — Contributeur — 135 exemplaires
Aphrodisiac, fiction from Christopher Street (1980) — Contributeur — 126 exemplaires
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008) — Contributeur — 122 exemplaires
The Other persuasion: short fiction about gay men and women (1977) — Contributeur — 121 exemplaires
The Christopher Street reader (1982) — Contributeur — 119 exemplaires
Best American Gay Fiction 1996 (1996) — Contributeur — 115 exemplaires
Selected Writings Of Jean Genet (Ecco Companions) (1993) — Editor & Introduction — 101 exemplaires
Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction (2004) — Selection & Introduction — 85 exemplaires
The State of the Language [1980] (1980) — Contributeur — 82 exemplaires
On the Line: New Gay Fiction (1981) — Contributeur — 82 exemplaires
Lavender Mansions: 40 Contemporary Lesbian and Gay Short Stories (1994) — Contributeur — 75 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica (1997) — Contributeur — 73 exemplaires
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art (2018) — Contributeur — 71 exemplaires
The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame: Master of Gay Erotic Manga, Vol. 1 (2013) — Introduction — 62 exemplaires
Anonymous Sex (2022) — Contributeur — 61 exemplaires
Lies: A Diary: 1986-1999 (2000) — Introduction — 60 exemplaires
Between Men: Best New Gay Fiction (2007) — Contributeur — 59 exemplaires
New Jersey Noir (2011) — Contributeur — 59 exemplaires
Granta 147: 40th Birthday Special (2019) — Contributeur — 56 exemplaires
21: 21 Picador Authors Celebrate 21 Years of International Writing (1993) — Contributeur — 53 exemplaires
Meltdown! (Richard Kasak Books) (1994) — Contributeur — 48 exemplaires
Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing (2004) — Contributeur — 40 exemplaires
Something Inside: Conversations with Gay Fiction Writers (1999) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
Positive Lives: Responses to HIV - A Photodocumentary (The Cassell Aids Awareness) (1993) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions23 exemplaires
Vital Signs: Essential AIDS Fiction (2007) — Contributeur — 19 exemplaires
OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture (2022) — Contributeur — 19 exemplaires
Windy City Queer: LGBTQ Dispatches from the Third Coast (2011) — Contributeur — 18 exemplaires
Latin Lovers: True Stories of Latin Men in Love (1999) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
Godenzonen : verhalen over mannen (1999) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
The Paris Review 84 1982 Summer (1982) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Strijdgewoel: verhalen over mannen (1996) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Jeannette Montgomery Barron: Mirrors (2004) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires

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Unable to finish reading this - Mary
 
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JimandMary69 | 14 autres critiques | Nov 7, 2023 |
We continue the autobiography of an unknown protagonist (okay, okay! It's White). By now he is a full fledged adult and it is the early 1960s. Whereas the other books in the trilogy spanned a short period of time, Farewell Symphony is much longer and covers nearly thirty years, ending in the early 1990s. By the end of The Farewell Symphony Mr. Nameless has outlived most of his friends. AIDS has infiltrated his love life. But I am getting ahead of myself. Let us start at the beginning. Brice, a former lover, died six months before the story opens. From there, the author experiences a string of sexual encounters barely qualifying as relationships: the heartbreak over Sean, a man who was unobtainable. Lou and Kevin. Fox. I could go on. For the most part, Farewell Symphony seems to be a running commentary on sex within the homosexual community. The nameless protagonist prowls for hookups, threesomes, and orgies all fueled by an insatiable desperation to not go lonely. When he isn't trying to get laid, he desires to be published. The most poignant and sorrowful portion of The Farewell Symphony is the bitter end. True to the title of the book, the symphony of gay men die off, one by one, leaving one voice to take a final bow.… (plus d'informations)
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SeriousGrace | 3 autres critiques | Aug 28, 2023 |
I was blown away by this collection of essays by Edmund White. The Burning Library. Writings on Art, Politics and Sexuality 1969 - 1993, edited by David Bergman, has been in my possession for a very long time before I came round to reading it this summer. It is no exaggeration to compare this collection of essays with the work of Susan Sontag.

First of all, White's essays cover a very broad field, extending to all the major writers of the Twentieth century. Through his familiarity with European culture, being able to read French, White has truly profound knowledge and understanding of French culture and writers with long essays on Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jean Genet. Then, too, Edmund White lived through most exciting times, witnessing the heights in the sexual liberation and emancipation of gay people between 1969 - 1993, as well as the lows during that period of the devastating AIDS epidemic. There are essays on Herve Guibert, Juan Goytisolo and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Edmund White knew or met many of the people he writes about. They were all there in it: Christopher Isherwood, Robert Mapplethorp, Truman Capote, William Burroughs, and Tennessee Williams.

Besides essays dedicated to writers there are several comtemplative essays on movements or the period. All essays are fabulously well-researched, and very well-written, I would never have guessed from mainly knowing Edmund White as a novelist. However, it should be remembered that he started his career as a non-fiction writer.

Highly recommended!
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edwinbcn | 2 autres critiques | Aug 9, 2023 |
Our Young Man is basically gay Zoolander, except in earnest. It's the story of a model who looks much younger than he is and lives a really very dull, aimless existence for fifty or so pages before the reader gives up and finds something else to read. The prose is ugly, the story both preposterous and uninteresting, and the dialogue is awful. In fact, the prose is so bad that in any long section of narration I would find myself longing for some dialogue, even though I knew the dialogue would be just as torturous. It seems that even with torture, humans crave variety.

I know that Edmund White is a giant of gay literature, but I think I only really enjoyed his first two novels. Maybe he needs to return to writing what he knows, because his imagination let him down in this instance.
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robfwalter | 3 autres critiques | Jul 31, 2023 |

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