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Chargement... The Essential Gore Vidalpar Gore Vidal
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In selecting for his Vidal ‘reader’, which serves as part prelude to his forthcoming authorised biography, Professor Fred Kaplan has enforced a distinction between Vidal the fabulist, Vidal the novelist and screenwriter, Vidal the historian, and Vidal the essayist. His choices are excellently made, and are partitioned by well-wrought passages of introduction from both editor and author. The interest and pleasure, though, derive largely from the blending effect, from what Vidal (who never attended any university) would certainly scorn to call the multicultural or the interdisciplinary. As he puts it here in a dismissive review of some overlong and overrespectful biography of Truman, there was a time when historians knew they were also composing literature. The corollary – why should not a litterateur be writing history? – would have been obvious before the age of specialisation overtook us.
Longtime fans gain a one-volume collection of the classic, quintessential writings of Gore Vidal, including previously uncollected essays and unpublished letters. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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