Robert Coover
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Robert Lowell Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American novelist, short story writer, and T.B. Brown University professor Emeritus in Literary Arts.
He is generally regarded as a writer of fabulation and metafiction.
Literary career
The Origin of the Brunists, Coover's first book, in which the sole survivor of a mine explosion starts a religious cult. J. Henry Waugh, Prosecutors, writes about the creator's second book, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., Inc. The eponymous Waugh, a shy, lonely accountant, creates a baseball game in which rolls of the dice determine every play, and hopes to match the results.
The celebrated metafictional tale "The Babysitter" was adapted into Guy Ferland's 1995 short story collection Pricksongs and Descants, Coover's 1969 short story collection Pricksongsongs and Descants.
The Public Burning, Coover's most well-known piece, explores Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's case in terms that have been described as magic realism. Half of the book is devoted to the mythic hero Uncle Sam of tall tales, as well as the equally magnificent Phantom, who represents international Communism. The alternate chapters depict Richard Nixon's attempts to stage the Rosenbergs' execution as a public event in Times Square. "Astonishingly, Nixon is the most interesting and sympathetic character in the story," reviewer Thomas R. Edwards wrote in The New York Times.
"Which of your books will get you into heaven?" Coover's 1982 novella Spanking the Maid was one of his favorites; in an interview, "which of your books will bring you to heaven?" "Spanking the Maid," Coover cooped. "God's deep into S&M" is a word that refers to the Bible. Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears (1987), a later novella, offers an alternate Nixon, one who is dedicated to football and sex with the same doggedness with which he sought political triumph in this setting. The anthology A Night at the Movies includes the poem "You Must Remember This," a Casablanca piece that includes an explicit description of what Rick and Ilsa did when the camera wasn't on them. Pinocchio in Venice is back to mythical themes.
He was the recipient of the Rea Award for the Short Story in 1987. Coover was 2021, and the Literary Hub revealed that he was working on a project called Street Cop, which was based on Art Spiegelman's collaboration.