Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Casanova's name has become an epithet, the fact that he actually existed is sometimes nearly forgotten, and his memoirs have only been spottily published in English. Previous U.S. editions were either abridged or sold by subscription; the present edition, the first in decades, seems to be the...
There is no doubt that Casanova's Memoirs ranks with the great literary confessions, notably Rousseau's and Cellini's. The trouble with confessions is that the author, no matter how detached in manner, implicitly pleads for the reader's understanding. Somehow neither 20th century sociology...
Primacy of the Image. The volume suggests why critics rank him with such movers and shapers of modern verse as Rilke, Valéry, Eliot and Yeats. There is a family resemblance linking Pasternak to these Western poets, but it is that of a distant cousin, not a brother. An...
There poplars stand
There the air is blue like the bundle of linen