Claim to Oblivion: Selected Essays and Interviews by Yuriy Tarnawsky

Claim to Oblivion: Selected Essays and Interviews

Art and Literary Work by Yuriy Tarnawsky

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Synopsis of the Art and Literary Work, Claim to Oblivion: Selected Essays and Interviews

Are you still wondering who is that boy at the beginning of Bergman's Persona and what the damn movie is all about? And what is the point of those near-silent seven minutes at the end of Antonioni's L'Eclisse? And what happens if you break the rules that Shklovsky thinks are the foundation of prose? And how would The Great Gatsby sound if written in super short sentences? And what about that big 450 page-long joke of a book Three Blondes and Death that was more than 20 years in the making? And ditto about the Modus Tollens: Improvised Poetic Devices collection the author calls heuristic poetry? You can find out this and much, much more in Yuriy Tarnawsky's Claim to Oblivion which readers call "terrific."

About the Author, Yuriy Tarnawsky

Yuriy Tarnawsky has authored some three dozen books of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, and translations in Ukrainian and English, including the novels Meningitis, and Three Blondes and Death, the collections of short fictions Short Tails and Crocodile Smiles, The Placebo Effect Trilogy collection of interrelated mininovels Like Blood in Water, The Future of Giraffes, and View of Delft, the novels Warm Arctic Nights and The Iguanas of Heat, the play Not Medea, a volume of Heuristic poetry Modus Tollens, and the book of essays Claim to Oblivion. He was born in Ukraine, but was raised and educated in the West. An engineer and linguist by training, he has worked extensively in the Artificial Intelligence field at IBM Corporation and as a professor of Ukrainian literature and culture at Columbia University. In 2008, he was awarded the Prince Yaroslav the Wise Order of Merit by Ukrainian government for his contributions to Ukrainian literature. Yuriy Tarnawsky currently resides with his wife Karina in the New York City metropolitan area.

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