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S'està carregant… A moral temper : the letters of Dwight Macdonald (edició 2001)de Dwight Macdonald
Informació de l'obraA Moral Temper: The Letters of Dwight Macdonald de Dwight MacDonald
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We’ve all read a lot about the Partisanskis. But some of us can’t get enough. Macdonald was at the epicenter, so there are letters here to T. S. Eliot, Hannah Arendt, Edmund Wilson, Mary McCarthy, Phillip Rahv, Irving Howe, C. Wright Mills, George Orwell, Albert Camus, Victor Serge, Arthur Schlesinger, and Robert Lowell, among others. Nicola Chiaromonte, the Italian anarchist and literary critic, was perhaps Macdonald’s closest friend, and the letters to him are especially revealing... But even when Macdonald’s spirits flagged, his prose kept its brio. He seems to have been as incapable of penning a vapid or ungainly sentence as he was of uttering a devious or ungenerous sentiment.
Dwight Macdonald's biographer has brought together in one volume a comprehensive selection of letters from the correspondence of one of the most astute observers of American politics, society, and culture in the twentieth century. Macdonald's letters span his lifetime, from his education at Exeter and Yale in the twenties through his career as an editor of Partisan Review, founder of Politics magazine, staff writer for the New Yorker, columnist for Esquire, and cultural critic and essayist for other major publications. The scope of his interests was extraordinary as was the diversity of friends and colleagues who became his correspondents. He had an instinctive grasp of the important fact and important thought, and an uncanny ability to bring an issue before the intellectual community, of which he was a prominent member. Macdonald consistently had his eye on what he felt was a change in the moral temper of the times and a prevailing dehumanization of the individual. Few spoke more eloquently against the mechanized terror of the modern world and of the separation of means from ends. His letters, always spirited and engrossing, trace the life of an upper-middle-class white male, schooled in the elite institutions of the WASP establishment, who managed to jettison the prejudices and provincialism of his class and, through the force of an inquiring mind, become a penetrating critic of mid-century American civilization. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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