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Writing Was Everything (Paperback, New edition)
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Writing Was Everything (Paperback, New edition)
Series: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies
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For more than sixty years Alfred Kazin has been one of the most
eloquent witnesses to the literary life of the mind in America.
Writing Was Everything is a summation of that life, a story of
coming of age as a writer and critic that is also a vibrant
cultural drama teeming with such characters as Hart Crane and Allen
Ginsberg, Simone Weil and Flannery O'Connor, Hannah Arendt and
Robert Lowell, Edmund Wilson and George Orwell. 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 reliving the work of 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. Writing Was Everything encapsulates the lively wit and
authority of this timeless critic's unmistakable voice. It stands
as clear testimony to Kazin's belief that "literature is not theory
but, at best, the value we can give to our experience, which in our
century has been and remains beyond the imagination of mankind."
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