John Sturrock (writer)

John Sturrock
Born
John Anning Leng Sturrock

(1930-06-14)14 June 1930
Died15 August 2017(2017-08-15) (aged 87)
Occupation(s)Writer, editor, reviewer and translator
Notable credit(s)The Times Literary Supplement;
London Review of Books
FatherJohn Leng Sturrock

John Anning Leng Sturrock (14 June 1930 – 15 August 2017) was an English writer, editor, reviewer and translator who was closely associated with The Times Literary Supplement and later the London Review of Books.[1][2][3][4]

He was the son of the politician John Leng Sturrock.

Selected publications

Author

  • French New Novel: Claude Simon, Michel Butor, Alain Robbe-Grillet. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969. ISBN 9780192121783
  • Paper Tigers: Ideal Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. ISBN 0198157460
  • The French Pyrenees. London: Faber, 1988. ISBN 0571137415
  • The Language of Autobiography: Studies in the first person singular. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN 0521412900
  • The Word from Paris: Essays on modern French writers and thinkers. London: Verso, 1998. ISBN 185984832X
  • Structuralism. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

Editor

  • Structuralism and Since: From Lévi Strauss to Derrida. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. ISBN 0192158392
  • The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN 0198182627
  • The Oxford Guide to Contemporary World Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN 0192833189

Translations

  • De Gaulle, Israel and the Jews, Praeger, 1969; Transaction Publishers, 2004; Routledge, 2017. In French: De Gaulle, Israël et les Juifs, Paris: Plon, 1968.
  • The Charterhouse of Parma (1836), by Stendhal, Penguin, 2006.

References

  1. ^ "The Editors: John Sturrock". Lrb.co.uk. 15 August 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  2. ^ "John Sturrock". The Times. 30 October 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  3. ^ "Remembering John Sturrock – TheTLS". The-tls.co.uk. 16 August 2017. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  4. ^ Tahourdin, Adrian (8 September 2017). "John Sturrock, 1930–2017 – TheTLS". The-tls.co.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2017.