Alfred Kazin's journals [electronic resource] / selected and edited by Richard M. Cook.
Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998.; Cook, Richard M., 1941-
2011
PS29.K38 A3 2011eb
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Title Alfred Kazin's journals [electronic resource] / selected and edited by Richard M. Cook.
Author Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998.
ISBN 9780300171655 (electronic book)
9780300142037
Publication Details New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 598 p.) : ill., facsims.
Call Number PS29.K38 A3 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 809 B
Summary At the time of his death in 1998, Alfred Kazin was considered one of the most influential intellectuals of postwar America. What is less well known is that Kazin had been contributing almost daily to an extensive private journal, which arguably contains some of his best writing. These journals collectively tell the story of his journey from Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood to his position as a dominant figure in twentieth-century cultural life. To Kazin, the daily entry was a psychological and spiritual act. To read through these entries is to reexperience history as a series of daily discoveries by an alert, adventurous, if often mercurial intelligence. It is also to encounter an array of interesting and notable personalities. Sketches of friends, mistresses, family figures, and other intellectuals are woven in with commentary on Kazin's childhood, early religious interests, problems with parents, bouts of loneliness, dealings with publishers, and thoughts on the Holocaust. The journals also highlight his engagement with the political and cultural debates of the decades through which he lived. He wrestles with communism, cultural nationalism, liberalism, existentialism, Israel, modernism, and much more. Judiciously selected and edited by acclaimed Kazin biographer Richard Cook, this collection provides the public with access to these previously unavailable writings and, in doing so, offers a fascinating social, historical, literary, and cultural record.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Added Author Cook, Richard M., 1941-
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Starting out: 1933-1942
The break: 1942-1945
A new time: 1945-1950
The fifties: 1951-1957
Return to the city: 1958-1963
The sixties: 1963-1969
New York Jew: 1970-1977
Love and politics: 1977-1984
Last years: 1985-1998.

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