VIDAL, Gore

VIDAL, Gore
(1925-)
   US writer, resident for some years in Italy, best known for such satirical works outside the sf field as Myra Breckinridge (1968) and its sequel Myron (1974) and for several vols of essays, from Rocking the Boat (coll 1962) to Armageddon? (coll 1987), whose contents are frequentlyapocalyptic. Messiah (1954; rev 1965), the sf novel which closed his first, precocious phase of novel-writing, is a dark SATIRE on RELIGION in which a new MESSIAH teaches a defeatedly secular USA how to worship death. A play, Visit to a Small Planet (1956; 1960), filmed in 1960, againsatirizes contemporary Western civilization in the story of an ALIEN child, capable of changing the past, who comes close to wrecking our corrupt society before its guardians arrive to take it back. Kalki (1978), a further satirical assault upon one of GV's most persistent betes noires, organized religion, depicts the devastating consequences of its protagonist's belief that he embodies the returned essence of the world-destroying Hindu deity Kalki - devastating because he turns out, in a sense, to be right; the assault on religion is if anything intensified in Live From Golgotha (1992), in which tv crews, taking advantage of a new technology, compete to film the crucifixion. Duluth (1983) is a FABULATION which uses any device available - including sf instruments - to sustain a deeply savage view of US life. GV has been for nearly 50 years a pessimistic, sharp-tongued, knowledgeable critic of his native land; his sf must be read as an attempt to dramatize the long jeremiad.
   JC
   Other work: A Search for the King: A Twelth Century Legend (1950
   See also: UFOS.

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  • Vidal, Gore — orig. Eugene Luther Vidal born Oct. 3, 1925, West Point, N.Y., U.S. U.S. novelist, playwright, and essayist. Vidal began publishing his writings soon after his wartime army service. Though he wrote stage plays and television and film screenplays …   Universalium

  • Vidal, Gore — ► (n. 1925) Escritor estadounidense. Ha cultivado la novela (La ciudad y el pilar, 1948; Lincoln, 1984), el teatro (Fin de semana, 1968) y el ensayo. * * * orig. Eugene Luther Vidal (n. 1925, West Point, N.Y., EE.UU.). Novelista, dramaturgo y… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Vidal, Gore —    см. Видал, Гор …   Писатели США. Краткие творческие биографии

  • Gore Vidal — Vidal in New York City to discuss his 2009 book, Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History s Glare Born Eugene Luther Gore Vidal October 3, 1925 (1925 10 03) (age 86) …   Wikipedia

  • VIDAL (G.) — VIDAL GORE (1925 ) Spirituel, maussade, turbulent, vaniteux, acerbe, arrogant, facétieux, provocateur, y a t il un adjectif qui ne soit déjà venu sous la plume des journalistes qui ont essayé de cerner la personnalité publique de Gore Vidal tel… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Gore — (ingl.; pronunc. [góre]) adj. Se aplica a la película o al género cinematográfico de terror que se recrea en lo sanguinolento. * * * El concepto Gore lo creo la banda llamada Carcass de Inglaterra (derivada de Napalm Death a finales de los 80 s) …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Vidal — (del lat. «vitālis»; ant.) adj. Vital. * * * Vidal, Francisco Antonio Vidal, Gore Vidal, Luis Mariano Vidal, Paul Antonin …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Vidal — (izg. vidȃl), Gore (1925) DEFINICIJA američki književnik, plodan dramatičar, esejist i pisac intelektualno i društveno angažiranih romana (Grad i stup, Mesija, Julijan); ironična slika društvenog morala u romanu iz života glavnoga grada SAD a… …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • Gore Vidal — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Vidal. Gore Vidal en 2009. Gore Vidal (né Eugene Luther Gore Vidal le 3 octobre  …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Gore Vidal — (2009) Gore Vidal (* 3. Oktober 1925 als Eugene Luther Vidal jr. in West Point, New York) ist ein US amerikanischer Schriftsteller, der gelegentlich als Schauspieler und Politiker aktiv ist. Er schrieb auch unter den Pseudonymen Edgar Box,… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Gore Vidal — en Nueva York, 2009. Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (3 de octubre de 1925, West Point, Nueva York, Estados Unidos), más conocido como Gore Vidal, es un escritor, ensayista y guionista estadounidense …   Wikipedia Español

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