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...Letters of James Agee to Father Flye. The anguished chronicle of a young writer's discovery that his talent was not enough to do justice to a high vision of the world...
Best Reading Letters of James Agee to Father Flye. Revelations of a young writer's agonizing struggle to discipline his talent, as told to a kindly confidant...
Angel's Talent. Agee met Father Flye at St. Andrew's School near Sewanee, Tenn., where the young Rufus (as Agee was then called) went shortly after the death of his own father. To the teacher-priest, Rufus seemed a sort of wonderful, shy, gifted hillbilly. For once the priestly vocation and the artist's vocation-often hostile in direction-met in understanding. Few sons have written to their natural fathers as James Agee wrote to Father Flye. Such trust, love and the confidence in being understood seldom surmount the walls of consanguinity. The letters are also...
...Tragedy. Most men would aver that he was overscrupulous, a man often rendered impotent by the severity of his own dedication. For most of his working life, that dedication was placed at the service of journalism and films-to his admirers' regret. Reading the letters to Father Flye, it is easy to see how his great hopes might always be somehow frustrated by something else...