Richard Kalich
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| Born | New York City, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1987–present |
| Genre | Absurdist fiction, Postmodern fiction |
| Literary movement | Postmodernism |
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Richard Kalich, the author of The Nihilesthete (1987), Penthouse F (2010) and Charlie P (2005) published in 2014 in a single volume as Central Park West Trilogy, and The Zoo (2001). He has been nominated for the National Book Award and for a Pulitzer Prize. His novels are internationally acclaimed and widely translated: his novels have been published in Bulgaria, Denmark, England, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Turkey, and Japan. Kalich was born and lives in New York City where he co-directs a film company with his twin brother, Robert.
Central Park West Trilogy includes three novels, The Nihilesthete, Penthouse F and Charlie P., originally published separately and collected for the first time in a single volume by the European publisher Betimes Books.
The Nihilesthete, first published in 1987 in US by The Permanent Press, and in 1989. in the UK under the title The Cry of the Cat by Marion Boyars Publishing, was selected by The Philadelphia Inquirer as one of the most noteworthy books of the year and heralded by the San Francisco Chronicle as “one of the most powerfully written books of the decade". It was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, a National Book Award, and Pulitzer Prize. A social caseworker Haberman becomes obsessed with one of his wards, Brodski, a quadriplegic with “a cri du chat” syndrome, when he discovers that “the idiot” is actually an esthete and an artist. Haberman, probably a failed artist himself, first makes it his mission to help Brodski realize his ambition, then driven by jealousy, starts probing the depths of his ward’s creative determination.
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