| Edition |
1st Vintage books ed. |
| Description |
xx, 919 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
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Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1983. |
| Contents |
INTERVIEWS WITH INSUFFICIENTLY FAMOUS AMERICANS -- The Pal -- One's Neighbor's Wife -- The Running Mate -- The Counsellor -- The Golf Course Owner -- The Child Bride -- The Mailman -- The Widow -- The Undertaker -- The Bankrupt Man -- The Tarbox Police -- Venezuela for Visitors -- The Chaste Planet -- Invasion of the Book Envelopes -- Golf Dreams -- Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Masters -- NEW ENGLAND -- The First Kiss -- Out There -- Going Barefoot -- Common Land -- New England Churches -- A Mild 'Complaint' -- OTHER PEOPLE'S BOOKS -- THREE TALKS ON AMERICAN MASTERS -- Hawthorne's Creed -- Melville's Withdrawl -- Whitman's Egotheism -- LETTERS -- The Bear Who Hated Life -- Simple-Minded Jim -- Advancing Over Water -- Nothing is Easy -- An Armful of Field Flowers -- Hem Battles the Pack; Wins, Loses -- The Doctor's Son -- The Shining Note -- WILSON AND NABOKOV -- Edmund Wilson's Fiction: A Personal Account -- An Earlier Day -- The Cuckoo and the Rooster -- An Introduction to Nabokov's Lectures -- The Fancy-Forger Takes the Lecturn -- Proud Happiness -- Vale, VN -- BELLOW, VONNEGUT, TYLER, LE GUIN, CHEEVER -- Draping Radiance with a Worn Veil -- Toppling Towers Seen by a Whirling Soul -- All's Well in Skyscraper National Park -- Family Ways -- Loosened Roots -- Imagining Things -- On Such a Beautiful Green Little Planet -- SOME BRITISH -- Jake and Lolly Opt Out -- Indestructible Elena -- An Introduction to Three Novels by Henry Green -- Green Green -- Through the Mid-Life Crisis with James Boswell, Esq. -- SPARK, MURDOCH, TREVOR, DRABBLE -- Topnotch Witcheries -- Worlds and Worlds -- Drabbling in the Mud -- Of Heresy and Loot -- Coming into Her Own -- SOME IRISH -- Small Cheer from the Old Sod -- Flann Again -- An Old-Fashioned Novel -- JARRY, QUENEAU, CELINE, PINGET -- Human Capacities -- Thirty-four Years Late, Twice -- The Strange Case of Dr. Destouches and M. Celine -- Robert Pinget -- NORTHERN EUROPEANS -- A Primal Modern -- Saddled with the World -- Scheherazade -- Brecht's Dicta -- Discontent in Deutsch -- Disaffection in Deutsch -- CALVINO, GRASS, BOLL -- Metropolises of the Mind -- Card Tricks -- Readers and Writers -- Fish Story -- The Squeeze is On -- EASTERN EUROPEANS -- Polish Metamorphoses -- Czarist Shadows, Soviet Lilacs -- Czech Angels -- LEM AND PYM, STEAD AND JONES -- Lem and Pym -- Selda, Lilia, Ursa, Great Gram, and other Ladies in Distress -- Eva and Eleanor and Everywoman -- SOME NACHTMUSIK, FROM ALL OVER -- No Dearth of Death -- Dark Smile, Devilish Saints -- Lays of Ambiguity -- Stalled Starters -- Frontiersmen -- BARTHES, BERLIN, CIORAN -- Roland Barthes -- Texts and Men -- The Last of Barthes -- A Monk Manque -- POETS -- The Heaven of an old Home -- Alone but not Aloof -- Owlish and Fisby -- Sissman's Prose -- Sissman's Poetry -- Three Poems on Being a Poet, by Yevheny Yevtusbenko -- Stand Fast I must -- TALES -- Magic Mirrors -- Fiabe Italians -- The Feast of Reason -- Happy on Nono Despite Odosba -- THE WORLD CALLED THIRD -- Affrican Accents -- Mixed reports from the interior -- Journeyers -- Raman and Daisy and Olivia and the Nawab -- Indian Going On -- THE FAR EAST -- Spent Arrows and First Buddings -- From Fumie to Sony -- The Giant Who Isn't There -- The Long and Reluctant Stasis of Wan-li -- ART AND ACT -- Gaiety in the Galleries -- Tote That Quill -- Wright on Writing -- Borges Warmed Over -- Printer's Unproduced Proust Printed -- Suzie Creamcheese Speaks -- Female Pilgrims -- LONG VIEWS -- A Cloud of Witnesses -- Who Wants to know? -- To the Tram Halt Together -- Appendix: -- On One's Own Oruvre. |
| Subject |
Character sketches.
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
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Character sketches. (OCoLC)fst00852283
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Literature, Modern. (OCoLC)fst01000172
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| Indexed Term |
Character sketches |
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Literature, Modern History and criticism |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| ISBN |
0394724976 (pbk.) |
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9780394724973 (pbk.) |
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