William Goyen: Selected Letters from a Writer’s Life - Softcover

Goyen, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0292729642 ISBN 13: 9780292729643

Verlag: University of Texas Press, 1995

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"Goyen's work requires much of a reader, but these letters provide an intimate 'portrait of the artist' from Texas that makes reading it and them well worth the effort." Texas Books in Review "Letters this impassioned about one's art have few if any analogues or forebears. They take their place in the tradition of Baudelaire, Flaubert and even Dostoyevsky... His prose has the emotional power of poetry...and these letters deal unceasingly with the torment of getting his vision into the right language... Goyen's letters are almost never preoccupied with philosophical grandstanding but with the daily details, the constant affirmation of a tough choice -- the 'agony and ecstasy' of creating some of America's most distinctive prose." San Antonio Express-News "...an exceptionally responsible volume, one that belongs--for the eloquence of its...accounts of the writer's life, intention, and travail--with other important American documents of the period--the journals of Wilder and Wescott, the letters of Cheever and Bogan..." Richard Howard

Reseña del editor:

These letters, which span the years 1937 to 1983, chronicle Goyen's long participation in the writing life and offer a compelling testament to what it means to be a writer in America.

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• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0292729642
• ISBN 13: 9780292729643
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 472
• Herausgeber: Phillips Robert