Weldon Kees and the Midcentury Generation: Letters, 1935-1955 - Couverture rigide

Kees, Weldon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0803227094 ISBN 13 : 9780803227095

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 1986

Synopsis

Before he vanished in the fog of San Francisco, Weldon Kees (1914-55) was a poet, storyteller, critic, painter, musician, and filmmaker. What remains is a body of work and a large collection of letters that shed light on Kees's complex personality. Robert E. Knoll traces the odyssey of a Nebraska boy who made his way in a fiercely competitive national scene, befriending the movers and shakers of the art worlds on both coasts. Kees's letters-satirical, witty, poetic, gossipy, intensely individual-provide the feel of lives being lived, of a career going forth, and finally, of the darkness that engulfed him when, in Knoll's phrase, he was "ten minutes from triumph."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert E. Knoll is D. B. and Paula Varner Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Conversations with Wright Morris: Critical Views and Responses (Nebraska 1977).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803227094
• ISBN 13: 9780803227095
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 253
• Éditeur: Knoll Robert E.
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