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Conversations with Jerome Charyn (Paperback)
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Conversations with Jerome Charyn (Paperback)
Series: Literary Conversations Series
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This volume of fourteen interviews covers the prolific and rich
career of author Jerome Charyn (b. 1937). Four of the interviews
appear in English for the first time, and two interviews appear
here in print for the first time as well. As one of his
autobiographical volumes claims, Jerome Charyn is a "Bronx Boy," a
child born from immigrant parents who went through Ellis Island in
the 1920s like so many other travelers without luggage, a "little
werewolf" who grew up on his own in the chaos of the Bronx ghetto.
"I think I was defined by two things: World War II and the movies."
His work remains deeply marked by this childhood largely forgotten
by the American Dream. If Charyn has spent much of his life in
Paris, he has paradoxically never left the Bronx: "'El Bronx' is
there inside my head, and I revisit it the way Hemingway would fish
the Big Two-Hearted River in his dreams." His whole work is a long
attempt at evoking his own history and celebrating his lifelong
marveling at the power of language-"our second skin"-as well as his
deep, unflinching belief in the promises of fiction. Since 1964,
Charyn has published more than fifty books ranging from fiction to
nonfiction and including short stories; very popular crime novels;
graphic novels cowritten with European artists; essays on American
culture and cinema as well as on New York; autobiography; and
biography-an ever-changing production that has made it difficult
for critics to classify him. And yet in many ways Charyn's writing
thrives on constant currents: the words "voice," "song,"
"undersong," or "rhythm" return frequently in his interviews as he
explains what literature is to him and ceaselessly asserts that he
is trying "to find a music for a musicless world," a language for
"people who cannot speak.
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