Frederic Tuten (born December 2, 1936) is an American
novelist
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,
short story
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writer and
essay
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ist. He has written five novels – ''The Adventures of Mao on the Long March'' (1971), ''Tallien: A Brief Romance'' (1988), ''Tintin in the New World: A Romance'' (1993), ''Van Gogh's Bad Café'' (1997) and ''The Green Hour'' (2002) – as well as one book of inter-related
short stories, ''Self-Portraits: Fictions'' (2010), and
essay
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s, many of the latter being about
contemporary art
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. His memoir ''My Young Life'' (2019) was published by
Simon & Schuster
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. Tuten received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction and was given the Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded three Pushcart Prizes and one O. Henry Prize.
Biography
Born in
The Bronx
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,
New York City
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,
New York
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* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
, in the United States, Tuten is the son of a
Sicilian mother and a
French-Huguenot father. His father left their family when Tuten was young, and though they were never close, his father eventually was a part of Tuten's life before his death.
Tuten received his undergraduate degree from the
City College of New York
The City College of the City University of New York (also known as the City College of New York, or simply City College or CCNY) is a public university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City. Founded in 1847, Cit ...
. After studying
pre-Columbian art history at the
National Autonomous University of Mexico
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and travelling through South America writing on
Brazilian cinema
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, he earned a Ph.D. in 19th-century American literature from
New York University
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In 1832, the ...
, concentrating on
Melville,
Whitman, and
James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonist and Indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought h ...
, and taught literature and
American cinema
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in France at the
University of Paris VIII: Vincennes—Saint-Denis.
Tuten spent 15 years heading the graduate program in creative writing at the City College of New York, which he co-founded. In that capacity, he championed the work of students
Walter Mosley,
Oscar Hijuelos,
Philip Graham
Philip Leslie Graham (July 18, 1915 – August 3, 1963) was an American newspaperman. He served as publisher and later co-owner of ''The Washington Post'' and its parent company, The Washington Post Company.
During his years with the Post Comp ...
,
Aurelie Sheehan
Aurelie Sheehan (1963-2023) was an American novelist and short story writer. She was the author of two novels, ''History Lesson for Girls'' (Penguin, 2004) and ''The Anxiety of Everyday Objects'' (Viking, 2006), as well as four collection of stori ...
,
Salar Abdoh
Salar Abdoh is an Iranian peoples, Iranian novelist and essayist. He is the author of the novels The Poet Game (2000), Opium (2004), Tehran At Twilight (2014), and the editor and translator of the anthology Tehran Noir (2014). He is also a direct ...
,
Ernesto Quiñonez
Ernesto Quiñonez (born 1965) is an Ecuadorian-Puerto Rican novelist. His work received the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers designation, the Borders Bookstore Original New Voice selection, and was declared a "Notable Book of the Year" ...
, and many others. He also teaches classes on experimental writing at
The New School
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. He is on the board of advisors for ''
Guernica Magazine'' and executive editor of ''
Smyles & Fish''. Tuten's short fiction has appeared in ''
Granta'', ''
Conjunctions'', ''Fence'', ''
Fiction
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary, or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with history, fact, or plausibility. In a traditi ...
'', ''The New Review of Literature'', ''Tri-Quarterly'', and Harper's Magazine. In 1973, he received a
Guggenheim Fellowship
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for Creative Writing and in 2001 was given the Award for Distinguished Writing from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In describing his usage of the past in his novels (where many of them are set), Tuten once stated:
The fact that I don’t write about contemporary life doesn’t mean I’m any less taken up with it. I find it too limiting to write about contemporary life just in contemporary diction, however. I don’t think there's enough flexibility. I can imagine writing about characters who feel passion for one another in a contemporary setting but I don’t, as yet, hear the language for that. But I’m always thinking about contemporary life vis a vis the way it looks in the past. I mean how it looks in the past is a reflection of what it is today. That's what interests me. I think I’m always talking about present-day life, not only political life but about the quality of passion, the quality of all relationships and love.
Tuten is also a well-known figure within the art world. He has worked as an art and film critic in various venues such as the ''
New York Times
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'' and ''
Artforum
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'' and often incorporates allusions to these fields in his fiction as well. Tuten was a close personal friend of
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Fox Lichtenstein (; October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. Hi ...
and published several essays on his work, as well as catalogue essays for many other artists including
John Baldessari,
Ross Bleckner
Ross Bleckner (born May 12, 1949) is an American artist. He currently lives and works in New York City. His artistic focus is on painting, and he held his first solo exhibition in 1975. Some of his art work reflected on the AIDS epidemic.
Earl ...
,
Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl (born March 9, 1948) is an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, draughtsman and educator. He is known for his paintings depicting American suburbia from the 1970s and 1980s.
Life
Fischl was born in New York City and grew up on su ...
,
R. B. Kitaj
Ronald Brooks Kitaj (; October 29, 1932 – October 21, 2007) was an American artist who spent much of his life in England.
Life
He was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States. His Hungarian father, Sigmund Benway, left his mother, Jeanne ...
, and
David Salle.
Tuten currently resides in
New York City
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's
East Village.
Works
Novels
Tuten's first novel, ''
The Adventures of Mao on the Long March'' (1971), a fictionalized account of
Chairman Mao's rise to power, is highly experimental in nature. It contains
Faulkneresque changes in narrative and lengthy fictional conversations with Mao that read like journalistic interviews. The story first appeared in 1969 in a 39-page condensed form in the magazine ''Artist Slain''.
The novel in its entirety was subsequently published by
Citadel Press
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in 1971, and re-released in 2005 by
New Directions. In 1988, ''
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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'' noted that the book "was hailed as a modernist classic, with high praise from such differing sensibilities as Susan Sontag and John Updike."
The cover of ''Mao'' features original artwork by painter
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Fox Lichtenstein (; October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. Hi ...
. This is fitting for Tuten whom, in life as in his novels, has a keen interest in artistic criticism (particularly with regard to painting). Tuten himself was actually used as a model for the drawing, which Lichtenstein altered accordingly to resemble Mao.
His next novel, ''Tallien: A Brief Romance'' (1988), is also about an historical figure, though one not nearly as well known as Mao.
Jean Lambert Tallien
Jean-Lambert Tallien (, 23 January 1767 – 16 November 1820) was a French politician of the revolutionary period. Though initially an active agent of the Reign of Terror, he eventually clashed with its leader, Maximilien Robespierre, and is bes ...
was a high-ranking figure in the
French Revolution
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, serving as the president of the Constitutional
Convention
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and a member of the
Committee of Public Safety
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. Like Mao, Tallien was a member of the common classes who rose to the upper crust of the revolutionary ranks.
Tuten tells the story of Tallien's courtship and marriage to Therese, a condemned member of the French aristocracy. When eyebrows are raised by Tallien's show of clemency, Tuten describes in minute organizational detail the sometimes-banal and sometimes-bloody bureaucratic struggle that ensues. The narrative is intercut with the author's account of his own father's life, demonstrating an illiquid literary mechanism similar to that used in ''The Adventures of Mao''.
Reviewing the novel in ''
The Palm Beach Post
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'', Gary Schwam wrote: "Tuten tells this tale swiftly and vividly . . . This sharp, daring little novel is another report from the political and emotional gulag, another attempt to help us remember."
''Tintin in the New World'' (1993) is perhaps Tuten's best known and most critically acclaimed work. The novel's unlikely protagonist is
Tintin
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''The Adventures of Tintin''
* ''The Adventures of Tintin'', a comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé
** Tintin (character), a fictional character in the series
** ''The Adventures of Tintin'' (film), 2011, ...
, the cartoon boy detective created by Belgian
comic
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artist
Georges Remi, better known as
Hergé. Tuten transplants Tintin from his comic book confines into a fleshed out, realistic world with all its wicked, grave and abstruse trappings. Appreciation of the book is enhanced by an acquaintance with
Thomas Mann
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's ''
The Magic Mountain
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Mann st ...
'', the characters of which it uses.
The cover of the novel, like ''The Adventures of Mao'', features a drawing by
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Fox Lichtenstein (; October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. Hi ...
, which was created expressly for the novel. Again Lichtenstein makes use of the
benday dot technique to depict Tintin and his dog
Snowy in a near-miss with a would-be assassin's knife. Behind Tintin hangs the painting ''Dance (I)'' by
Henri Matisse
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, which in reality is displayed in the
Museum of Modern Art
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in
New York City
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. Roy Lichtenstein's own rendering of ''Dance'', ''sans'' Tintin, hangs in the same museum.
Writing in ''
The New York Times Book Review
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'', Edmund White called ''Tintin in the New World'' "queerly beautiful" and said that in the novel Tuten "shows that by tapping the energy of Hergé's archetypes he has, surprisingly, been able to make a statement more personal than autobiography."
The book went through several print runs, both in the United States and the UK (in Britain, the novel was published by
Marion Boyars Publishers
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Marion Boyars died in 1999, her daughter Catheryn Kilg ...
, and later Minerva). The novel was also translated into French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan, and Swedish. In 2005, it was re-released by Black Classics Press in the USA, with an introduction by
Paul LaFarge
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. All editions of the book feature the ''Interior with Painting of Tintin'' jacket illustration created by Lichtenstein.
Like ''Mao'' and ''Tallien'', Tuten's next novel, ''Van Gogh's Bad Café'' (1997), offers an imagined glimpse into the
psyche of a historical character,
Dutch artist
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Vincent van Gogh
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. The book is also similar to ''Mao'' in that the time and place of action and the
narrator are inconsistent throughout and change without warning. ''Van Gogh's Bad Café'' explores the themes of love and addiction.
In his review in
The Los Angeles Times
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, Richard Eder wrote, "In 'Van Gogh's Bad Cafe,' his finest book, Tuten has brought to fruition what I think he was aiming at in the diverting but self-conscious 'Tintin.' His message about the end of art has become a work of art and almost too sad to bear."
Tuten's most recent novel, ''The Green Hour'' (2002), is in many ways a departure from the others. The setting is the present day, and the characters are not borrowed from history. Further, it lacks much of the impertinent
humor
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and ethereal feel of his previous works. The story recounts the 30-year love affair between an
academic and a spiritual vagabond.
Several of Frederic Tuten's novels and short stories feature a cat named Nicolino.
"The Collagists"
In 2007 Tuten was asked by literary website ''
Smyles and Fish'', along with lifelong friend
Jerome Charyn, to write an essay about their former colleague and friend
Donald Barthelme. The project evolved into a lengthy article, which offers a sort of collage of these three writers and the world of their influences. The work is divided into three parts – an introductory essay on the project by editor-in-chief
Iris Smyles, Charyn's essay on Barthelme, and Tuten's piece "My Autobiography: Portable with Images", into which Tuten embedded illustrations by
Max Ernst and quotes from Barthelme's works.
Short Story Collections
In 2010, Tuten published ''Self Portraits: Fictions'' a collection of interrelated short stories that create a portrait of Tuten's life, both real and imagined.
The author's 2022 short story collection ''The Bar at Twilight'' was praised in ''
The New York Times Book Review
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'': "Tuten's prose is always vital, often dazzling . . . "The Bar at Twilight" is neither normative nor predictable, and it bears the firm impress of the soul."
Short stories
* "My Autobiography : Portable, with Commentary", ''
Conjunctions'' 40, Spring 2003.
* "In the Borghese Gardens," ''The New Review of Literature'' Vol. 1, October 2003.
Tuten's first collection of short stories entitled ''Self Portraits: Fictions'' was published by
W. W. Norton
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on 13 September 2010 and includes the following stories:
* "The Park Near Marienbad", ''Conjunctions'' 42, Spring 2004.
* "Voyagers", ''Conjunctions'' 44, Spring 2005.
* "The Park in Winter," ''Fence'' Vol.8, Summer 2005.
*
The Ship at Anchor,
Granta 91, September 2005.
*
Self Portrait with Icebergs", ''KGB Bar Lit'', 2005.
* "Self Portrait with Cheese", "Roy Lichtenstein: Conversations with Surrealism, Exhibition Catalogue: Mitchell-Innes & Nash, October 2005; reprinted in ''
Smyles & Fish'' 1, Fall 2006.
* "Self Portrait with Beach", ''Mona Kuhn : Evidence'', 2007 ; reprinted in ''Conjunctions'' 48, Spring 2007, and in ''
Harper's'', August 2007;
* "Self Portrait with Sicily," ''Conjunctions'', Spring 2008.
*
The Bar on Tompkins Square Park: Self Portrait with Blue Horse, ''BOMB Magazine'', Summer 2009.
* "The Park on Fire"
* "Self Portrait with Circus"
* "Self Portrait with Bullfight"
Memoir
In March 2019, Tuten published his memoir ''My Young Life'' with
Simon & Schuster
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. Spanning 1944-1965, ''My Young Life'' follows Tuten from The Bronx to Greenwich Village, with side trips to Mexico City and Syracuse, as he chases his artistic and literary aspirations. It was reviewed in
The New Yorker
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,
Kirkus Reviews
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,
Publishers Weekly
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, and
Booklist. It was selected as an Editor's Choice a
BOMB Magazine
Essays
* "
Trova
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." ''Arts Mag.'', XLIII (December 1968 – January 1969), 32–33.
* "Roy Lichtenstein Bronze Sculpture 1976–1989." 65 Thompson Street, 1989.
"Twenty-Five Years After : ''The Adventures of Mao on the Long March''."Archipelago, 1997.
*.
* "Still Replying to Grandma's Persistent 'And Then?'" Writers on Writing (2002). - reprinted as a prologue to the short story collection ''Self Portraits: Fictions''
*
Frederic Tuten / December Guest Editor ''
Guernica Magazine'', 2006. Frederic Tuten comments on fiction from four selected writers whose work he edited for ''Guernica Magazine''.
Other writings
Tuten has contributed to the following books:
* ''
R.B. Kitaj
Ronald Brooks Kitaj (; October 29, 1932 – October 21, 2007) was an American artist who spent much of his life in England.
Life
He was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States. His Hungarian father, Sigmund Benway, left his mother, Jeanne ...
Pictures.'' Marlborough Gallery, 1974.
* ''Roy Lichtenstein: Water Lilies.'' Richard Gray Gallery, 1992.
* ''
David Salle.'' Gagosian Gallery, 1999.
* ''Roy Lichtenstein: Early Black and White Paintings.'' Gagosian Gallery, 2002.
* ''
Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl (born March 9, 1948) is an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, draughtsman and educator. He is known for his paintings depicting American suburbia from the 1970s and 1980s.
Life
Fischl was born in New York City and grew up on su ...
: Paintings And Drawings 1979-2001.'' Hatje Cantz, 2003.
* ''
John Baldessari.'' Ecole normale supérieure des beaux-arts, 2005.
* ''Roy Lichtenstein: Conversations With Surrealism.'' Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 2006.
Tuten also co-wrote the 1981 cult movie ''
Possession
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Law
* Dependent territory, an area of land over which another country exercises sovereignty, but which does not have the full right of participation in that country's governance
* Drug possession, a crime
* Ownership
* ...
'' with its director,
Andrzej Zulawski
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Notable individuals with the given name Andrzej
* Andrzej Bartkowiak (born 1950), Polish film director and cinematographer
* Andrzej Bobola, S.J. (1591–1657), Polish saint, missionary and ma ...
.
Notes
Further reading
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External links
''Frederic Tuten's Young Life'' Studio 360 (April 11, 2019)''Hotel'' Manhattan via Paris, Frederic Tuten in Conversation (2019)''Ross Bleckner & Frederic Tuten'' The Strand (November 26, 2012)''A Conversation with Frederic Tuten and Steve Martin'' Getty Research Institute (May 23, 2012)''BOMB Magazine'' Interview with Frederic Tuten by Bruce Wolmer (Winter, 1989)
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