Starting Out with Alfred Kazin |
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Authors: | Morris Dickstein |
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Institution: | 1.The Graduate Center, CUNY,New York,USA |
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Abstract: | After the great success of Alfred Kazin's memoir A Walker in the City in 1951, its long-awaited sequel, Starting Out in the Thirties (1965), has been relatively neglected. Though not much longer than a novella, it is nevertheless rich in the kind of portraiture that makes his autobiographical writing so memorable. In doing so it paints an exceptional portrait of the whole decade and makes a strong political case against ideological abstraction and expedience as opposed to the values of personal empathy and moral urgency--the very qualities the book exemplifies. |
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