STANLEY ELKIN (1930-1995).

Item request has been placed! ×
Item request cannot be made. ×
loading   Processing Request
Read Online Read More Add to Saved list
Share on Goodreads
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      DICK Gibson Show, The (Book); FRANCHISER, The (Book)
    • Subject Terms:
      ELKIN, Stanley
    • Abstract:
      This article presents information related to the writer Stanley Elkin. Although Stanley Elkin's reputation as a virtuoso prose stylist and creator of mordantly funny, oddly affecting fictions rests on ten novels and two collections of novellas, he published one volume of short stories early in his career that is likely to have enduring appeal. Later, Elkin pretty much abandoned the short story for longer forms that better allowed him to explore his themes of obsession and excess and to conduct his highly original experiments with a pop-culture-inspired, Yiddish-inflected, Joycean-rich language. Among his most admired novels are The Dick Gibson Show (1971) and The Franchiser (1976).