Description
Literary Nonfiction. 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 some early readers have called "terrific." Will you?
Author Bio
Yuriy Tarnawsky has authored some three dozen books of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, and translations in Ukrainian and English, including three volumes of interrelated mininovels (his own genre) THE PLACEBO EFFECT TRILOGY (JEF Books, 2013), the novel WARM ARTIC NIGHTS (JEF BOOKS, 2019), the novel THE IGUANAS OF HEAT, the novel Three Blondes and Death, and a volume of heuristic poetry Modus Tollens. His affinity for animals is well exemplified in many of his works including CROCODILE SMILES (JEF Books. 2020). He was born in Ukraine but was raised and educated in the West. An engineer and linguist by training, he has worked as computer scientist specializing in Artificial Intelligence at IBM Corporation as well as Professor of Ukrainian Literature and Culture at Columbia University. He lives with his wife Karina in the New York City metropolitan area.
Author City: WHITE PLAINS, NY USA