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Writing was everything
- Title
- Writing was everything / Alfred Kazin.
- Author
- Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS29.K38 A3 1995 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 152 pages; 20 cm.
- Summary
- A deft blend of autobiography, history, and criticism that moves from New York in the 1930s to wartime England to the postwar South, Writing Was Everything emerges as a reaffirmation of literature in an age of deconstruction and critical dogma. In his encounters with books, Kazin shows us how great writing matters and how it involves us morally, socially, and personally on the deepest level.
- Whether reflecting on modernism, southern fiction, or black, Jewish, and New Yorker writing, or sharing anecdotes about Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, and John Cheever, he gives a penetrating, moving account of literature observed and lived. In his life as a critic, Kazin personifies the lesson that living and writing are necessarily intimate.
- Series Statement
- William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization ; 1994
- Uniform Title
- William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization ; 1994.
- Subjects
- ISBN
- 0674962370 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 95006625
- OCLC
- 32133439
- ocm32133439
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries