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Encyclopedia > John Hawkes

John Hawkes (born John Clendennin Talbot Burne Hawkes, Jr., 17 August 1925 &bdash; 15 May 1998). Born in Stamford, Connecticut he was an avant garde American novelist and a post-modernist, known for the intensity of his work, which suspended the traditional constraints of the narrative. August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Nickname: The City that Works Location Location in Connecticut Coordinates , Government Counties Fairfield County Mayor Dannel Malloy (Dem) Geographical characteristics Area     City 52. ...


Educated at Harvard, Hawkes taught at Brown University for thirty years. Though he published his first novel, The Cannibal, in 1949, it was The Lime Twig (1961) that first won him acclaim. Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Brown University is an Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... See also: 1948 in literature, other events of 1949, 1950 in literature, list of years in literature. ... A short work set in England in which a sedate, bored couple--Michael and Margaret Banks--become lured into fronting a race horse scandal. ... See also: 1960 in literature, other events of 1961, 1962 in literature, list of years in literature. ...


Hawkes died in Providence, Rhode Island. Nickname: Beehive of Industry, The Renaissance City Official website: http://www. ...


Quotations

"For me, everything depends on language."


"I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained."


"Like the poem, the experimental fiction is an exclamation of psychic materials which come to the writer all readily distorted, prefigured in that inner schism between the rational and the absurd."


"Everything I have written comes out of nightmare, out of the nightmare of war, I think."


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Scriptorium - John Hawkes (1215 words)
It is an unfortunate irony that the very social and cultural wasteland compelling writers like John Hawkes to write disturbing and difficult novels also robs them of a general audience with the time and patience to read, puzzle, and understand them.
Hawkes died in 1998, the same year as William Gaddis, a contemporary who also wrote complex, labyrinthine novels.
John Hawkes' first novel, The Cannibal, was published in 1949 when he was twenty-three years old.
Design and Debris: John Hawkes's Travesty, Chaos Theory, and the Swerve (8299 words)
Hawkes is repelled by the suggestion that his narrator merely indulges a morbid fantasy.
Hawkes demonstrates that the postmodern novelist apprehends one of the central tenets of chaos theory not as a figure of speech but as a physical principle.
Hawkes transcends the dualist imposition of order on chaos that is characteristic of a fabricatory modernism, in which the artist must inevitably be frustrated by the impermanence of his creation.
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