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
editAuthor
edit- French New Novel: Claude Simon, Michel Butor, Alain Robbe-Grillet. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1969. ISBN 9780192121783
- Paper Tigers: Ideal Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1977. ISBN 0198157460
- The French Pyrenees. Faber, London, 1988. ISBN 0571137415
- The Language of Autobiography: Studies in the first person singular. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993. ISBN 0521412900
- The Word from Paris: Essays on modern French writers and thinkers. Verso, London, 1998. ISBN 185984832X
- Structuralism. Blackwell, Oxford, 2002.
Editor
edit- Structuralism and Since: From Lévi Strauss to Derrida. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1979. ISBN 0192158392
- The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996. ISBN 0198182627
- The Oxford Guide to Contemporary World Literature. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996. ISBN 0192833189
Translations
edit- 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
edit- ^ "The Editors: John Sturrock". Lrb.co.uk. 15 August 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
- ^ "John Sturrock". Thetimes.co.uk. 30 October 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
- ^ "Remembering John Sturrock – TheTLS". The-tls.co.uk. 16 August 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "John Sturrock, 1930–2017 – TheTLS". The-tls.co.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
External links
edit- "John Sturrock · LRB". Lrb.co.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
