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James Agee (1909–1955)

Auteur de Un mort dans la famille

35+ oeuvres 7,049 utilisateurs 110 critiques 16 Favoris

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Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on November 27, 1909 and educated at Harvard, James Agee crowded versatile literary activity into his short and troubled life. In addition to two novels, he wrote short stories, essays, poetry, and screenplays; he worked professionally as a journalist and film critic. afficher plus Appropriately, he is best remembered for a work that combines several genres and literary approaches. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a documentary report on sharecropper life accompanied by vividly realistic photographs by Walker Evans, has been called "a great Moby Dick of a book" (New York Times Book Review). It may be considered an important precursor of the so-called nonfiction novel that was to gain prominence during the 1960s. The Morning Watch (1954), a novel in the tradition of portraits of artists-to-be, and A Death in the Family, a moving account of domestic life based on the loss of Agee's father belong to more conventional types of fiction. The 1960 dramatization of All the Way Home by Tad Mosel, won a Pulitizer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award; it was also cited by Life as the "Best American Play of the Season." Agee's work for the screen included his scripts for The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter. Agee on Film (1958-60) consists of a gathering of reviews and comments as well as five scripts. Prior to Laurence Bergreen's well-received 1984 biography of Agee, the principal source of information about his life was Letters of James Agee to Father Flye, a collection of seventy letters written by Agee to his instructor at St. Andrew's School and trusted friend throughout his life. The letters show Agee most often in a reflective, self-condemning mood. The final letters, written from the hospital where he was battling daily heart attacks, are touching, as are his sad reflections on the work he yet wanted to do. Agee died in New York of a heart attack on May 16, 1955. He was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1957 for A Death in the Family. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

Comprend les noms: James Agee, James Agees

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Œuvres de James Agee

Un mort dans la famille (1957) 3,031 exemplaires
Sur le cinéma (1958) 267 exemplaires
Film Writing and Selected Journalism (2005) 210 exemplaires
La nuit du chasseur (1DVD) (1955) — Screenwriter — 180 exemplaires
La veillée du matin (1950) 154 exemplaires
Letters of James Agee to Father Flye (1962) 153 exemplaires
The Collected Poems of James Agee (1968) 104 exemplaires
James Agee: Selected Poems (2008) 62 exemplaires
Helen Levitt (1980) — Auteur — 51 exemplaires

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The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Contributeur — 774 exemplaires
As I Lay Dying [Norton Critical Edition] (2009) — Contributeur — 544 exemplaires
Reporting World War II Part One : American Journalism, 1938-1944 (1995) — Contributeur — 437 exemplaires
Fifty Great American Short Stories (1965) — Contributeur — 430 exemplaires
Reporting World War II Part Two : American Journalism 1944-1946 (1995) — Contributeur — 388 exemplaires
The Best American Essays 2004 (2004) — Contributeur — 289 exemplaires
L'odyssée de l'African Queen (1951) — Screenwriter — 289 exemplaires
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (1997) — Contributeur — 214 exemplaires
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Contributeur — 162 exemplaires
Many Are Called (2004) — Introduction — 108 exemplaires
The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Contributeur — 98 exemplaires
A Way of Seeing (1965) — Contributeur — 54 exemplaires
Southern Dogs and Their People (2000) — Contributeur — 39 exemplaires
Years of Protest: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's (1967) — Contributeur — 39 exemplaires
New Masses; An Anthology of the Rebel Thirties, (1969) — Contributeur — 38 exemplaires
Fifty Best American Short Stories 1915-1965 (1965) — Contributeur — 36 exemplaires
Philosophical problems of the social sciences (1965) — Contributeur — 34 exemplaires
The Yale Younger Poets Anthology (1998) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
The Best American Short Stories 1953 (1953) — Contributeur — 15 exemplaires
The Best American Short Stories 1958 (1958) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Paras elokuvakirja (1995) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Twenty-Three Modern Stories (1963) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Le livre terre Humaine (1993) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire

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> Par Pauline Hamon (Culturebox) : Louons maintenant les grands hommes
10/02/2014 ... James Agee, après avoir fait ses études à Harvard, a été chargé par le groupe de presse "Time-Life" d'un reportage de six semaines sur les Blancs pauvres de l'Alabama.
Accompagné de Walker Evans – qui deviendra le plus célèbre photographe américain –, ils vont au sein de trois familles tenter d'approcher la vérité. Mais qu'est-ce que la vérité d'un homme, d'une société ? N'est-elle pas insaisissable ? Agee nous le fait percevoir. L'intention première est donc un compte rendu. Mais la personnalité fiévreuse de l'auteur va tirer de la vie la plus humble son expression la plus haute.
C'est une protestation contre la réalité, une déchirure, une brûlure intérieure qui inspirent ces portraits dont la tonalité, des plus singulières, bouscule la tradition sociologique. Comment cette pauvreté sans retour et ces détresses intérieures sont-elles possibles ?
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