Starting Out in the Thirties

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Vintage Books, 1980 - Biography & Autobiography - 166 pages
This book, the autobiographical sequel to his famous A Walker In The City, at once the public and the private portrait of a young intellectual in the heyday of the thirties, and of the artist as a young man, making the traditional discoveries of youth.

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TWO 1935
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THREE 1936
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FOUR 1937
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About the author (1980)

Alfred Kazin, a literary critic and professor of English literature, was born in Brooklyn on June 5, 1915. He was educated at City College and Columbia University. Kazin established his own critical reputation in the mid-1940s with On Native Grounds (1942), a study of American literature. His later work, Bright Book of American Life (1973), is both a recapitulation of modernism and an evaluation of American writers who have achieved prominence since 1945. Modernism, a favorite topic of Kazin, is in his view a literary revolution marked by spontaneity and individuality but lacking in precisely the mass culture appeal necessary to its survival. Contemporaries (1962) includes reflective essays on travel, five essays on Freud, and some very perceptive essays on literary and political matters. The final section, "The Critic's Task," concerns itself with the critic's function within a popular and an academic context and with critical theory and principles. Starting Out in the Thirties (1965) describes Kazin's early years with The New Republic as book reviewer and evaluates his contemporaries in a period when the depression and radical political thought, pro and con, deeply affected literary production. In the midst of the current antihumanistic trend in literary theory, Kazin remains a literary critic of the old school, believing in the relevance of literature to modern life. Alfred Kazin died on June 5, 1998.

Bibliographic information

TitleStarting Out in the Thirties
A Vintage Book
Vintage. V-336
AuthorAlfred Kazin
PublisherVintage Books, 1980
Original fromCornell University
DigitizedJul 13, 2011
ISBN0394743369, 9780394743363
Length166 pages
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