9780674962385
Writing Was Everything
Alfred Kazin
ISBN 13: 9780674962385
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Softcover
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Kazin's book is a blend of autobiography, anecdote, biographical sketch, and criticism, tracing the author's life in letters from the '30s to the '50s. The book features ruminations on the work and lives of such personalities as William Faulkner, Richard Wright, George Orwell, Simone Weil, Delmore Schwartz, Hannah Arendt, Flannery O'Connor, and Czeslaw Milosz. Successfully sparks the urge to return to these authors with a renewed respect and greater appreciation for their craft.
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"Much of the considerable pleasure of reading 'Writing Was Everything' comes from Kazin's account of going into that 'great world' into which books carried him."
ChristopherBenfey, New Republic, 10/09/1995
Review:"Alfred Kazin is our our grand old man of letters, supreme keeper of the non-flickering literary flame....Prolific, indefatigable, ambitious on a grand scale that seems quaint in this day of academic specialization, Mr. Kazin has never been one to bore his readers with details. He prefers the sprawling canvas, the hard-to-categorize narrative that mingles scholarship and reminiscence, polemic and personal history."
James Atlas, New York Times Book Review, 09/03/1995
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