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 Biography of Gilbert Sorrentino
4,296 words, approx. 14 pages
 In Splendide-Hôtel (1973) Gilbert Sorrentino writes: "I agree with all those who wish to leave something behind that has the flash of the smallest truth. It is, I admit, sadly, sadly, so much of my life's concern." To confront what he calls in... summary from source:
Biography of Gilbert Sorrentino
3,549 words, approx. 12 pages
Gilbert Sorrentino was born in Brooklyn, New York, to August E. and Ann Davis Sorrentino. He married and was later divorced from Elsene Wiessner. He is now married to Victoria Ortiz, and he has three children: Jesse, Delia, and Christopher. He was... 
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 Gilbert Sorrentino Information
502 words, approx. 2 pages
 Gilbert Sorrentino (April 27 1929 – May 18 2006) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and editor. In over twenty-five works of fiction and poetry, Sorrentino explored the comic and formal possibilities of language...
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 The Review of Contemporary Fiction Gilbert Sorrentino.
09/22/2001: 22,752 words, approx. 76 pages He sought by stress upon construction to hold the loose-strung mass off even at the cost of an icy coldness of appearance; it was the first need of his time, an escape from the formless mass he hated. It is the very sense... summary from source:
The Review of Contemporary Fiction A Gilbert Sorrentino checklist.
09/22/2001: 344 words, approx. 1 pages Fiction The Sky Changes. New York: Hill and Wang, 1966; San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1998. Steelwork. New York: Pantheon Books, 1970; Elmwood Park, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1992. Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things....
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Jerome Klinkowitz
1,622 words, approx. 5 pages
Gilbert Sorrentino is a veteran poet who began publishing fiction just about when critics were announcing its demise. The Sky Changes (1966), Steelwork (1970), Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things (1971), [and] Splendide-Hotel (1973) … are examples of the novel's renaissance, as it turns from an attempt to capture life through belief-suspending conventions back to-ward the truths which those conventions slight. (p. 154) Sorrentino sees time as the enemy … and seeks the same actuality ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Josh Rubins
1,079 words, approx. 4 pages
[It is] only to be expected that a new Gilbert Sorrentino novel is going to provoke skeptical whispers if it seems to have a "narrative"—one of the dirtiest words in the Lamont/Sorrentino world of "Sur-fiction … Ur-fiction, and Post-Modern fiction to boot." A veteran of Mulligan Stew might do a particular double-take, too, at the new book's title page: Aberration of Starlight is published by Random (Hasard) House. Is this the same Gilbert Sorrentino? Now that... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Frank Cioffi
957 words, approx. 3 pages
[Mulligan Stew] is a crazy quilt of popular culture, "sub-literary" genres, and unusual narrative voices. Its basic story of a novelist writing his most recent work is interlaced with all variety of playful, parodic, and fictive allusions. Eventually this motley production exemplifies Sorrentino's main concern: "Surfaces, I'm interested in surfaces," he remarked in a 1974 interview. "For me, life is right in front of you. Mysterious because it is not hidden. ...
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