Mawrdew Czgowchwz (New York Review Books Classics) - Softcover

Mawrdew Czgowchwz

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. Nancy Spero (cover illustration) (illustrator). First Printing [Stated] thus. The format is approximately 5 inches by 8 inches. xviii, 205, [9] pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads [unclear] 13, 2002 for Maria in Musicy James McCourt. ink notation, apparently also from the author, at the bottom of page 205. Decorative front cover. Introduction by Wayne Koestenbaum. Reissued Edition of the author's breakthrough debut novel. One of the most brilliant novels of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title as an NYRB Classics selection. James McCourt (born July 4, 1941) is a gay American-born writer and novelist. McCourt is best known for his extravagant novel Mawrdew Czgowchwz (1975), about a fictional opera diva, and his 2003 nonfiction book Queer Street, about gay life in New York City after World War II. His novel, Now Voyagers (2007), is the first in a series of projected sequels to Mawrdew Czgowchwz. McCourt has garnered praise from critics Susan Sontag and Harold Bloom and has been championed by author Dennis Cooper. Sontag directed McCourt's first novel, Mawrdew Czgowchwz, to her publisher's attention,[3] while Bloom named a later work, Time Remaining to his influential Western Canon. Mawrdew Czgowchwz was brought back in print in 2002 with a new introduction by Wayne Koestenbaum. Wayne Koestenbaum (born 1958) is an American artist, poet, and cultural critic. He received a Ph.D. from Princeton University and is a 1994 Whiting Award recipient. He received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature in 2020. He has published over 20 books to date. Diva Mawrdew Czgowchwz (pronounced "Mardu Gorgeous") bursts like the most brilliant of comets onto the international opera scene, only to confront the deadly malice and black magic of her rivals. Outrageous and uproarious, flamboyant and serious as only the most perfect frivolity can be, James McCourt's entrancing send-up of the world of opera has been a cult classic for more than a quarter-century. This comic tribute to the love of art is a triumph of art and love by a contemporary American master. Mawrdew was loosely based on real life opera singer Miliza Korjus. Derived from a Kirkus review: James McCourt's operaphiliac fairy tale of the "diva oltrano of the century," her fanatic devotees, her Sicilian rival and her happily-ever-after love affair is as rich, decorative and preposterous as a tea tray of fancy iced pastries. Mawrdew Czgowchwz (call her Gorgeous) is the darling of the soignee sybarites of the Old Met -- a extravagant cast of socialites, doxies and stage door suitors. McCourt keeps his pastiche of the opera scene of the '40's together between ovations and crises with the frothy wit of New York's gossips, critics, snoops and champions, who are all as smart and fashionable and elegant as Moet champagne and beluga caviar. Even a hex engineered by an invidious Grand Street witch cannot halt Mawrdew's progress toward perfection but only leads to the revelation of her true identity as one of the Hibernian chosen few; come St. Patrick's Day, Mawrdew triumphs again. McCourt's debut has a glitter and stylishness all his own. Artikel-Nr. 87469

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