Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989)
Autor(a) de Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
About the Author
Malcolm Cowley, critic, poet, editor, and translator, was an influential figure in American letters. The son of a Pittsburgh physician, Cowley studied at Harvard University and the University of Montpelier, "starved" in Greenwich Village, and lived in France, where he met the Dada crowd and worked mostrar mais on two expatriate magazines, Secession and Broom. From 1929 to 1944, he was associate editor of The New Republic. Perhaps the most famous work he wrote was his early book of poetry entitled, Blue Juniata (1929). As an editorial consultant to Viking Press, he pushed for the publication of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. His book The Faulkner-Cowley File: Letters and Memories, 1944-1962 documents his early recognition of William Faulkner. The Portable Faulkner was published at Cowley's instigation and under his editorship in 1946, when all 17 of Faulkner's books were out of print. Its publication had a profound effect -- virtually creating Faulkner's literary revival. Cowley died in 1989. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: From Wikipedia, Malcolm Cowley photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 26, 1963.
Obras de Malcolm Cowley
Great Tales of the Deep South 3 cópias
The Viking Critical Library Sherwood Anderson's WINESBURG, OHIO - Text and Criticism Edited by John H. Ferres (1965) 1 exemplar(es)
The Complete Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman 1 exemplar(es)
Writers at work : the Paris review interviews, second series 1 exemplar(es)
Writers at work, the Paris review interviews, second series 1 exemplar(es)
Writers At Work. the Paris Review Interviews, Second Series. 1 exemplar(es)
Perspectives USA no. 5, Fall 1953 1 exemplar(es)
Marshall A. Best 1 exemplar(es)
The Portable Hawthorne Works of Nathaniel Hawthome 1 exemplar(es)
Perspectives USA: Number Five, Fall 1953 1 exemplar(es)
Autograph, (S.F. & Spiritualistic Writer), S. Tticker on 3x5 1 exemplar(es)
Facetas de la crítica 1 exemplar(es)
The Long Voyage [poem] 1 exemplar(es)
Literatur in Amerika 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The Cabala | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | The Woman of Andros (1956) — Introdução, algumas edições — 759 cópias
A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage (1985) — Contribuinte — 463 cópias
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Contribuinte — 405 cópias
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuinte — 131 cópias
The Sun Also Rises / A Farewell to Arms / The Old Man and the Sea (1962) — Introdução, algumas edições — 32 cópias
New World Writing: Fifth Mentor Selection - Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Criticism (1954) — Contribuinte — 8 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Cowley, Malcolm
- Data de nascimento
- 1898-08-28
- Data de falecimento
- 1989-03-27
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Belsano, Pennsylvania, USA
- Local de falecimento
- New Milford, Connecticut, USA
- Locais de residência
- Belsano, Pennsylvania, USA (birth)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Paris, France - Educação
- Harvard University
- Ocupação
- novelist
poet
literary critic
journalist
ambulance driver (WWI) - Relacionamentos
- Crane, Hart (friend)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (friend)
Tate, Allen (friend) - Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1949)
American Field Service (WWI)
The New Republic
Harvard Aesthetes - Premiações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1946)
Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (1958)
Membros
Resenhas
Listas
Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 46
- Also by
- 28
- Membros
- 1,407
- Popularidade
- #18,264
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 9
- ISBNs
- 55
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
- 1
Fontos tudnivaló, hogy Cowley nem számba veszi a múltat, hanem látleletet írna a pillanatnyi állapotról. Következésképpen a szöveg nem dinamikus eseményfűzér, hanem statikus elmélkedés. Konklúzióját talán az általa említett képpel lehet legjobban ábrázolni, ami szerint az öregség olyan, mint hajótöröttnek lenni egy lakatlan szigeten: az ember örül, hogy eddig megúszta a vihart, de várja a következőt. Ebben a metaforában benne van némi csendes fatalizmus, ugyanakkor az óvatos remény is - hogy a fennmaradt időt akár hasznosan is eltölthetjük. Cowley-t idézve:
"Az öregkorban megvan az a kiváltságunk - amely néha álmatlan éjszakák kínjává válik -, hogy ítéletet mondhatunk saját szereplésünkről. De mielőtt kimondanánk az ítéletet, ki kell bogoznunk a darab cselekményét."
Finoman kidolgozott szöveg - de talán túl finom is. Azon gondolkodtam olvasás közben, hogy vajon erősebben hatna-e rám, ha jobban érintve érezném magam - nos, talán, ezt nyilván nem tudhatom. Ám nekem per pillanat túl levegős volt, túl lágy: kedvvel időzött el a súlytalan általánosságokon, nagy tudással formálta azokat tetszetős struktúrákba, de nem ment bele a kínzó konkrétumokba. Van hiányérzetem a kötettel kapcsolatban - mindenesetre elolvasom majd nyolcvan évesen is, hátha akkor jobban tetszik.… (mais)