The Fathers

Allen Tate

Verlag: Alan Swallow, Swallow Press, 1960

Beschreibung

306 unmarked pages This noted Southern poet's only novel set during the Civil War. "The Fathers was published in 1938. It sold respectably in both the United States and England, perhaps because people expected it to be another Gone With the Wind, wheras it is in fact the novel Gone With the Wind ought to have been. Since its publication it has received very little attention, considering that it is one of the most remarkable novels of our time. Its occasion is a public one, the achievement and the destruction of Virginia's antebellum civilization. Within that occasion it discovers a terrible conflict between two fundamental and irreconcilable modes of existence, a conflict that has haunted American experience, but exists in some form at all times. The Fathers moves between the public and the private aspects of this conflict with an ease very unusual in American novels, and this ease is the most obvious illustration of the novel's remarkable unity of idea and form, for it is itself a manifestation of the novel's central idea, that "the belief widely held today, that men may live apart from the political order, that indeed the only humane and honorable satisfactions must be gained in spite of the public order, "is a fantasy." unmarked sharp secure age spot on the rear cover. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2286

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Fathers

Verlag: Alan Swallow, Swallow Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 1960

Einband: Soft cover

Illustrator: Cover design by Lowell Naeve

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition.