La Farge

American  

[luh fahrzh, fahrj] / lə ˈfɑrʒ, ˈfɑrdʒ /

noun

1. John, 1835–1910, U.S. painter, stained-glass designer, and writer.

2. Oliver Hazard Perry Oliver II, 1901–63, U.S. novelist and anthropologist.

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Example Sentences

The writer Paul La Farge, whose novels played with history and narrative technique, has died at 52.

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Mr. La Farge’s novels and short stories defied easy categorization, but they were all characterized by a sort of writer's derring-do.

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Mr. La Farge lived in Red Hook, N.Y., in the Hudson Valley, and was something of a magnet for a group of writers in that area, among them the novelist and memoirist Gary Shteyngart, who was a fan.

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Mr. La Farge presented it as his translation of a minor French poet, Paul Poissel, whom he had invented out of whole cloth.

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“An amnesiac’s dream,” Peter L’Official wrote in The Village Voice, “‘Facts’ is — to hear La Farge describe it — a ‘series of dreams, all dreamed by people in and around Paris during the winter of 1881, which is to say that it is a fictional account of the imaginary lives of people who may or may not be real.’

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