In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories

Name: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories
Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation
SKU: 9780811220033
Price: 15.73 EUR
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★★★★★

English

By (author): Delmore Schwartz

Now with an exciting new preface by Lou Reed (Delmore Schwartzs student at Syracuse), In Dreams Begin Responsibilities collects eight of Schwartzs finest delineations of New Yorks intellectuals in the 1930s and 1940s. As no other writer can, Schwartz captures the speech, the generational conflicts, the mocking self-analysis of educated, ambitious, Depression-stymied young people at odds with their immigrant parents. This is the unique American dilemma Irving Howe described as that interesting point where intellectual children of immigrant Jews are finding their way into the larger world while casting uneasy, rueful glances over their backs. Afterwords by James Atlas and Irving Howe place the stories in their historical and cultural setting. See more

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Weight: 245g
Dimensions: 135 x 206mm
Publication Date: 19 Jun 2012
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780811220033

About Delmore Schwartz

Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) was born and raised in Brooklyn. One of Americas greatest poets and short-story writers Schwartz contributed In Dreams Begin Responsibilities to the first issue of Partisan Review in 1937. Schwartz taught at Syracuse Princeton and Kenyon College and received the Bollingen Prize in 1959. After a difficult period of alchoholism and depression he died of a heart attack in 1966. James Atlas is the president of Atlas & Co. and founder of the Penguin Lives series. His numerous books include Bellow: A Biography Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet and the memoir My Life in the Middle Ages. He lives in New York City. Irving Howe was a literary and social critic as well as a prominent member in the Democratic Socialists of America party. Lou Reeds (b. 1942) most recent releases include Romanticism a collection of photographs and Lou Reeds Berlin the Julian Schnabel-filmed record of a multi-media performance of Reeds iconic 1973 album. The guitarist and principal songwriter for The Velvet Underground he has enjoyed a long and successful solo career. His book of photographs New York was published in 2008.