David LeHardy Sweet
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | professor/writer |
| Location | New York, New York |
| Introduction | Professor of literature, writer, and translator, David LeHardy Sweet is the author of three books: "Avant-garde Orientalism: The Eastern 'Other' in Twentieth-Century Travel Narrative and Poetry" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017); "Savage Sight/ Constructed Noise: Poetic Adaptations of Painterly Techniques in the French and American Avant-Gardes" (University of North Carolina Press, 2003); and "Jean Cocteau and 'The Testament of Orpheus'" (Viking Studio, 2001), the latter with photographer Lucien Clergue. He has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Columbia University in New York and currently works as an adjunct professor at The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in Manhattan. |
| Interests | literature, art, politics |
| Favorite movies | Accatone, Pather Panchali, In the Realm of the Senses, Sansho the Bailiff, Repulsion, Out of the Past |
| Favorite music | Piano Concerto in G major by Ravel; Quintet in E-flat major, opus 44, by Schumann; anything by Debussy, Satie, Stravinsky, Schubert, Dvorak, Mendelssohn. |
| Favorite books | Madame Bovary, Wind-up Bird Chronicle, The Elephant Vanishes, Les Fleurs du mal, The Tennis Court Oath, City of Glass, Du Cote de chez Swann, White Teeth, Death in Venice, Light in August, As I Lay Dying, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, The Lover, No Longer at Ease, The Sheltering Sky, Naked Lunch, The Sympathizer, The Quiet American, V., The Crying of Lot 49, Voyage au bout de la nuit, The Kingdom of this World, |