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America--c'est moi! Alfred Kazin on American literature.(Books)
"A wit said of Gibbon's autobiography," wrote Walter Bagehot, "that he did not know the difference between himself and the Roman Empire." Something similar may be said of the career that Alfred Kazin (1915-1998) devoted to the two subjects that were of obsessive interest to him: American literature and himself. What he wrote about Walt Whitman in God and the American Writer is indeed a key to the temper of his own literary oeuvre. "Whitman, after his best work was done," wrote Kazin, "never tired of summing up self and career, interpreting both in weary but friendly new perspectives. He never tired of self-portraits, especially when he discovered readers who thought him ...
- Richard Cook. Alfred Kazin: A Biography.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Style Medici, Anthony G. June 22, 2009 700+ words
Richard Cook. Alfred Kazin: A Biography...300-11505-5. Alfred Kazin broke onto the...literary world of New York, which is to say...the Thirties, New York Jew, as for his...titled simply, Alfred Kazin: A Biography...
- V My Fellow American.(Alfred Kazin)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: American Scholar DAJER, ANTONIO January 1, 1999 700+ words
...never heard of Alfred Kazin (imagine!) until...flight from Paris to New York. The cabin doors...but commute to New York to pull emergency...know my husband, Alfred Kazin. He taught there...firmly in hand, Alfred Kazin marched to Grand...time I returned to ...
- Alfred Kazin: A biography.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Harvard Review McWhirter, Cameron June 1, 2008 700+ words
Alfred Kazin: A biography by Richard...cloth, ISBN 9780300115055. Alfred Kazin (1915-1998) was one...Review, Commentary, and the New York Review of Books and went...an influential class of New York Jewish intellectuals of...
- A Walker through History: Alfred Kazin, who has changed our views of
- Newspaper article from: The Jewish Week Daniel Schifrin June 16, 1995 700+ words
...Walker through History: Alfred Kazin, who has changed our...culture, turns 80 -- and New York celebrates. At a recent...honoring writer and critic Alfred Kazin, Professor Louis Menand...the third floor of the New York Public Library. He remembers...
- Talkers in the City: Celebrating Alfred Kazin at 80
- Newspaper article from: Forward Alfred Conant May 26, 1995 700+ words
...Talkers in the City: Celebrating Alfred Kazin at 80. Alfred Kazin, critic and historian of American...author most recently of "Our New York," is a charter member of the brilliant generation of New York intellectuals whose influence...
- A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin.
- Magazine article from: The Nation Berman, Marshall May 6, 1996 700+ words
...century ends, New York Jewish intellectuals...late. People like Alfred Kazin, Irving Howe...the sidewalks of New York, where people...churning momentum of New York condemns us all...Everyone agrees that Alfred Kazin, as much as anyone...
- Celebrating Alfred Kazin; How provocative critic felt American literature in...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times October 12, 2003 700+ words
...Pritchard, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Alfred Kazin, who died in 1998 on his eighty-third birthday, was one of the so-called New York Intellectuals - Lionel Trilling, Philip...the golden tables in room 315" of the New York Public Library (Mr. Solotaroff locates...
- WRITING WAS EVERYTHING, by Alfred Kazin; Harvard University Press (152 pages,...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Romano, Carlin September 13, 1995 700+ words
Alfred Kazin remembers. Way back in 1934...activity among the so-called New York Intellectuals, Kazin made...ground he recovers here. ``New York Jew'' (1978) detailed...at the City University of New York. Kazin bemoans how ``criticism...
