Only a few of us seek immortality, and fewer still by writing. But
Arthur Inman challenged the odds. He calculated that if he kept a
diary and spared no thoughts or actions, was entirely honest and
open, and did not care about damage or harm to himself or others,
he would succeed in gaining attention beyond the grave that he
could not attain in life. The diary became a many-layered and
strikingly animated work of a gifted writer, by turns charming,
repellent, shocking, cruel, and comical. But the diary is also an
uninhibited history of his times, of his eccentricities and
fantasies, of his bizarre marriage arrangements and sexual
adventures. Inman's explorations of his own troubled nature made
him excessively curious about the secret lives of others. Like some
ghostly doctor-priest, he chronicled their outpourings of head and
heart as vividly as he did his own. The diary reads like a
nonfiction novel as it moves inexorably toward disaster. This is an
abridged version of the celebrated two-volume work published by
Harvard as The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession.
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