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Chargement... Dreiserpar W. A. Swanberg
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 3918. Dreiser, by W. A. Swanberg (read 8 Aug 2004) I finished reading this book Aug 8, 2004. It is the 8th Swanberg book I have read. While Dreiser is a thoroughly despicable person--a hater of the Catholic Church, a person who revelled in adultery, an admirer of Hitler and Stalin, an anti-Semite--I enjoyed the book immensely, the author holding no brief for Dreiser's bad qualities. The book is well-researched, and its account of literary lives from 1900 [when Sister Carrie was published (it flopped!)] till Dec 28, 1945 [when Dreiser died mostly forgotten] is unfailingly interesting and well-written. This book confirmed for me anew why I like Swanberg--even when his subject is a man I have no regard for. ( )
Mr. Swanberg has had the good grace to tidy up the record as little as possible. He has produced a mass of new material from the Dreiser papers and from the recollections of Dreiser’s contemporaries (substantiated, in large part, by diaries or letters). And he has left it all where it falls, not seeking to organize it into a political or moral sermon, or even a literary analysis. The method works exceptionally well in the first and last sections of his biography, less well in the middle years, when the exciting story is Dreiser’s subterranean method of book planning and writing, not the parties Dreiser attended, his quarrels with publishers, or his fights with censors. Listes notables
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