Richard Seaver (1926–2009)
Auteur de The Tender Hour of Twilight: Paris in the '50s, New York in the '60s: A Memoir of Publishing's Golden Age
Œuvres de Richard Seaver
The Tender Hour of Twilight: Paris in the '50s, New York in the '60s: A Memoir of Publishing's Golden… (2012) 69 exemplaires
Hiroshima Mon Amour 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Seaver, Richard
- Nom légal
- Seaver, Richard Woodward
- Date de naissance
- 1926-12-31
- Date de décès
- 2009-01-06
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Watertown, Connecticut, USA
Paris, France
New York, New York, USA - Études
- University of North Carolina
Sorbonne - Professions
- teacher
editor
publisher
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Aussi par
- 10
- Membres
- 102
- Popularité
- #187,251
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 2
- Langues
- 1
Seaver writes concisely and clearly, with touches of beauty. On his first view of France, approaching from sea: “Gentle hills of green rose up to touch the lowering clouds, inviting undulations were speckled with black-and-white dots that, as we drew nearer, became herds of cattle.”
The first half of the book “Paris, 1950s” is the most vibrant. To the young American studying at the Sorbonne the city seemed “the center of the universe.” The New York portion, when Seaver was an editor at Grove Press, tells a different story of publishing, as the radical Grove becomes larger and more mainstream. A wonderful story of bringing new writers to the public and fighting censorship.… (plus d'informations)