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Carregando... After the Lost Generation: A Critical Study of the Writers of Two Warsde John W. Aldridge
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. 435. After the Lost Generation: A Critical Study of the Writers of Two Wars, by John W. Aldridge (read 4 June 1952) On June 3, 1952, as I was reading this book I said to myself: "In this critical study of postwar 'new' novelists the author exposes the utter sterility of their views, but purblindly ignores the obvious need for an end to disbelief." Among the 'new' novelists discussed: Vance Bourjaily, Norman Mailer, John Horne Burns, Irwin Shaw, Merle Miller, Gore Vidal, Paul Bowles, Truman Capote, and Frederick Buechner. [ I have as of 2011 read something by each of said authors except Burns] ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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John W. Aldridge is one of the few young critics of importance to appear on the literary scene since World War II. In AFTER THE LOST GENERATION he discusses with acumen and discernment the most important works of the young post-war writers of the Forties-Norman Mailer, Irwin Shaw, John Horne Burns, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Paul Bowles, Alfred Hayes and others. Aldridge discusses three writers of the 1920's-Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald-to introduce the writers of World War II. He draws significant parallels between the work of the two generations-between Hemingway and Hayes, between Fitzgerald and Burns, between Bowles and Hemingway, and between the "lost generation" of the Twenties and the "illusionless lads of the Forties." More important than the likenesses between the two generations are the new developments. Norman Mailer and Irwin Shaw wrote enormous "encyclopedic" war novels which covered whole armies and had settings in a dozen different lands. John Horne Burns sought relief from the chaos of modernity in Italian culture and Old World tradition. Truman Capote dealt essentially with abnormalities and peculiarities in human nature. Anti-Semitism, the Negro problem, and homosexuality appear time and again in the new writing. The old themes with which Hemingway and Fitzgerald shattered Victorian patterns-sex, drinking, the brutalities of war-are no longer shocking. AFTER THE LOST GENERATION is a penetrating analysis of post-war fiction that already has provoked wide controversy and discussion. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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