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- Title
Starting Out with Alfred Kazin.
- Authors
Dickstein, Morris
- Abstract
After the great success of Alfred Kazin's memoir A Walker in the City in 1951, its long-awaited sequel, Starting Out in the Thirties (1965), has been relatively neglected. Though not much longer than a novella, it is nevertheless rich in the kind of portraiture that makes his autobiographical writing so memorable. In doing so it paints an exceptional portrait of the whole decade and makes a strong political case against ideological abstraction and expedience as opposed to the values of personal empathy and moral urgency—the very qualities the book exemplifies.
- Publication
Society, 2018, Vol 55, Issue 6, p491
- ISSN
0147-2011
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1007/s12115-018-0298-y