WorksYOU or The Invention of Memory"
"YOU is a wise, witty meditation on the mysteries of love. And because the brilliant Jonathan Baumbach is the author, it is also a house of mirrors in which a single relationship is fractured into infinite possibilities and the corridors lead deep into a labyrinth of memory and desire. At every point, YOU offers us a new way to look at ourselves, startling us with uncanny reflections." --Joanna Scott BABBLE (1976)
BABBLE is a comic novel about entering and losing the world, an adult dream of lost babyhood. "Jonathan Baumbach's BABBLE is a brilliant conceit, endlessly inventive and yet my first impression was that I had read a book of immense tenderness." --Maureen Howard RERUNS (1974), Fiction Collective
Reprinted 2004, FC2. Published in France as Ce Soir, On Joue Mes Reves. "I suspect RERUNS will ultimately prove to be one of the best novels of our time -- Baumbach is as much concerned with revitalizing language as with every level of human reality." --American Poetry Review B, a novel (2002)
Lo Fi Press "Baumbach has been a hero of mine since I started writing. I remain avid for novelists who push the limits of the novel’s form without sacrificing its traditional human juices. Baumbach is just such a writer and B is just such a novel -- smart, edgy, full of feeling, not quite like anything else I’ve ever read." ON THE WAY TO MY FATHER’S FUNERAL: New and Selected Stories
Lo-Fi Press, 2004 "Baumbach’s retrospective collection showcases more than 30 years of work from an underappreciated writer. He employs a masterfully dispassionate, fiercely intelligent narrative voice whose seeming objectivity is always a faltering front for secret passion and despair." --NY Times Book Review |
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