James Agee (1909–1955)
Auteur de Un mort dans la famille
A propos de l'auteur
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
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Œuvres de James Agee
Louons maintenant les grands hommes. Trois familles de métayers en 1936 en Alabama (1939) 2,131 exemplaires
Partisan Review No. 2, March-April, 1951 2 exemplaires
James Agee Rediscovered: The Journals for 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men' and Other New Manuscripts (2005) 2 exemplaires
Rare THE COLLECTED POEMS OF JAMES AGEE 1st Edition/1st Printing 1968 Very Good/VG- (1968) 1 exemplaire
Film: An Anthology 1 exemplaire
The Collected Short Prose of James Agee. Edited and with a Memoir by Robert Fitzgerald (1968) 1 exemplaire
James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / a Death in the Family / Shorter Fiction (Loa #159) 1 exemplaire
Αυτοί που έμειναν 1 exemplaire
Religion and the Intellectuals: a Symposium 1 exemplaire
The last letter of James Agee to Father Flye 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Reporting World War II Part One : American Journalism, 1938-1944 (1995) — Contributeur — 438 exemplaires
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Contributeur — 407 exemplaires
Reporting World War II Part Two : American Journalism 1944-1946 (1995) — Contributeur — 388 exemplaires
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Contributeur — 380 exemplaires
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (1997) — Contributeur — 214 exemplaires
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Contributeur — 153 exemplaires
Years of Protest: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's (1967) — Contributeur — 39 exemplaires
The Roads from Bethlehem: Christmas Literature from Writers Ancient and Modern (1993) — Contributeur — 29 exemplaires
Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets (Yale Series of Younger Poets) (2019) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Agee, James
- Nom légal
- Agee, James Rufus
- Date de naissance
- 1909-11-27
- Date de décès
- 1955-05-16
- Lieu de sépulture
- Agee Family Farm, Hillsdale, New York, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Cause du décès
- heart attack
- Lieux de résidence
- Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Santa Barbara, California, USA - Études
- Harvard University (BA|1932)
- Professions
- screenwriter
journalist
film critic
novelist
poet - Relations
- Levitt, Helen (friend)
- Organisations
- The Nation
Fortune
Time - Prix et distinctions
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1949)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1958)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Five star books (1)
Books About Boys (1)
Read This Next (1)
1950s (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Overdue Podcast (1)
Favourite Books (1)
Movies wishlist (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 35
- Aussi par
- 30
- Membres
- 7,074
- Popularité
- #3,472
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 111
- ISBN
- 185
- Langues
- 9
- Favoris
- 16
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 ?… (plus d'informations)