Gilbert Sorrentino
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Gilbert Sorrentino (April 27, 1929 – May 18, 2006) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, professor, and editor.[1]
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Born | (1929-04-27)April 27, 1929 Brooklyn, New York |
Died | May 18, 2006(2006-05-18) (aged 77) Brooklyn, New York |
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Alma mater | Brooklyn College |
Genre | Fiction |
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In over twenty-five works of fiction and poetry, Sorrentino explored the comic and formal possibilities of language and literature. His insistence on the primacy of language and his forays into metafiction mark him as a postmodernist, but he is also known for his ear for American speech and his attention to the particularities of place, especially of his native Brooklyn.