Literatura na Świecie 6/1998

by Harry Mathews, Literatura na Świecie

Spis treści:

Harry Mathews - Kochana mamo, 3
Harry Mathews - Ziomp, 7
Harry Mathews - An ex-voto to include excursive excavators, 28
Harry Mathews - Vox angelica ku rozrywce expertów, ekspedientek, excentryków, 29
Tomasz Mirkowicz - Proza Harry'ego Mathewsa - rygorystyczne fajerwerki wyobraźni, 49
Harry Mathews - Zatonięcie Stadionu Odradka, 57
Harry Mathews - Zakulisowi wspólnicy, 113
Harry Mathews - 20 wersów dziennie, 119
Harry Mathews - Ormiańskie zwitki, 133
Harry Mathews - Zapiski na progu książki, 157
Harry Mathews - Papierosy, 165
Tadeusz Pióro - Reprodukcje Harry'ego Mathewsa, 229
Harry Mathews - Wiejska kuchnia z Francji Centralnej, 235
Harry Mathews - Dziennikarz, 253
Harry Mathews - Histoire, 267
Harry Mathews - Autobiografia, 271
Haha i Hoho z Harry Mathewsem rozmawia Tomasz Mirkowicz, 293
Jerzy Szacki: Cenny przewodnik po filozofii XX wieku, 307
Małgorzata Łukasiewicz: Nowy, obcy język, 312
Wacław Sadkowski: Ścieżki, tropy, szlaki [pryzmaty], 319
Nota o autorze, 322
Jerzy Jarniewicz: L. C., 326
Janusz Margański: List do Michała Pawła Markowskiego, 331
Maria Bożenna Fedewicz: Sí, me gusta este jardín, 334

339 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Harry Mathews was an American author of various novels, volumes of poetry and short fiction, and essays.

Together with John Ashbery, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch, Mathews founded and edited the short-lived but influential literary journal Locus Solus (named after a novel by Raymond Roussel, one of Mathews's chief early influences) from 1961 to 1962.

Harry Mathews was the first American chosen for membership in the French literary society known as the Oulipo, which is dedicated to exploring new possibilities in literature, in particular through the use of various constraints and algorithms. The late French writer Georges Perec, likewise a member, was a good friend, and the two translated some of each other's writings. Mathews considers many of his works to be Oulipian in nature, but even before he encountered the society he was working in a parallel direction.

Mathews was married to the writer Marie Chaix and divided his time between Paris, Key West, and New York.