SAMUEL R. DELANY many prizes include the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to gay and lesbian literature. Wesleyan has published both his fiction and nonfiction, including Atlantis: three tales (1995), Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics (1994), Longer Views: Extended Essays (1996), and Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary. The press has also reissued his classic science fiction and fantasy novels Dhalgren (1996), The Einstein Intersection (1998) and the four-volume Return to Nevèrÿon series.
"[Delany] works real magic in these pages . . . Portions of
'Atlantis: Model 1924' linger, even loom, in my memory, and I
suspect they will long endure there."--Hungry Mind Review
"[Delany] works real magic in these pages . . . Portions of
'Atlantis: Model 1924' linger, even loom, in my memory, and I
suspect they will long endure there.Hungry Mind Review"--Hungry
Mind Review
"Delany, who's best known for his science fiction, takes a variety
of literary turns in these three novellas that chronicle the
experience of the African American writer in the 20th century . . .
Balanced and full of intricate layers of prose, these novellas
present a potpourri literary references, detailed flashbacks and
experimental page layouts. Delany seamlessly meshes graceful prose,
cultural and philosophical depth and a knowledge of different forms
and voices into a truly heady, literate blend."--Publishers
Weekly
"The language is lush and striking. Deftly, Delany uses stream of
consciousness, Surrealism, and typographic innovation to juxtapose
fact, memory, and time."--Boston Phoenix Literary Supplement
"Delany sketches sympathetic portraits of young black men aswim in
the dense, sweet hives of American cities."--New York Times Book
Review
"[Delany] works real magic in these pages . . . Portions of
Atlantis: Model 1924 linger, even loom, in my memory, and I suspect
they will long endure there."--Hungry Mind Review
"Delany, who's best known for his science fiction, takes a variety
of literary turns in these three novellas that chronicle the
experience of the African American writer in the 20th century . . .
Balanced and full of intricate layers of prose, these novellas
present a potpourri literary references, detailed flashbacks and
experimental page layouts. Delany seamlessly meshes graceful prose,
cultural and philosophical depth and a knowledge of different forms
and voices into a truly heady, literate blend."--Publishers
Weekly
"The language is lush and striking. Deftly, Delany uses stream of
consciousness, Surrealism, and typographic innovation to juxtapose
fact, memory, and time."--Boston Phoenix Literary
Supplement
"[Delany] works real magic in these pages . . . Portions of
"Atlantis: Model 1924" linger, even loom, in my memory, and I
suspect they will long endure there."--Hungry Mind
Review
"Delany sketches sympathetic portraits of young black men aswim in
the dense, sweet hives of American cities."--New York Times Book
Review
Delany, who's best known for his science fiction (Nova, Dhalgren) takes a variety of literary turns in these three novellas that chronicle the experience of the African American writer in the 20th century. The longest story, ``Atlantis: Model 1924,'' focuses on the impressions of a 17-year-old African American who travels from North Carolina to New York to join his family. Using a mysterious unnamed character who vanishes from a rowboat beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, Delany draws a variety of parallels between the mythic aspects of the Big Apple and the legendary city under the sea, framing the young man's perspective against the achievements of such early 20th-century black luminaries as Paul Robeson, Hart Crane and Jean Toomer. In ``Erik, Gwen, and D.H. Lawrence's Esthetic of Unrectified Feeling,'' Delany paints a portrait of the black artist as a young man, musing on the use of music lessons, art classes and New York private schools to help instill and sustain the instinct to create. ``Citre et Trans'' leans more heavily on plot and narrative and deals, albeit with more style and seriousness, with some of the themes of the author's recently published Hogg. Here, a bisexual African American writer, living in Greece in the mid-1960s, must confront the emotional effects of rape after his roommate picks up a pair of Greek sailors. Balanced and full of intricate layers of prose, these novellas present a potpourri of literary references, detailed flashbacks and experimental page layouts. Delany seamlessly meshes graceful prose, cultural and philosophical depth and a knowledge of different forms and voices into a truly heady, literate blend. (May)
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