Word: leibowitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this approach, though, that the book ultimately founders. The canon, it would seem from reading Leibowitz's digressions on everything from Paul Valery to obscure ancient Greek dramatists, is alive and well--and certainly formative in most Americans' sense of themselves...
Perhaps this was the case for the select group Leibowitz has chosen to study. It includes such quintessential Americans as noted socialist-anarchist Emma Goldman, novelist Richard Wright and architect Louis Sullivan...
...public figures, all eight autobiographers present an equally intractable set of questions about their public, as opposed to private, identieis which Leibowitz seems reluctant to answer. The book should--and does not--acknowledge the relevance of the writers' public status in disguising the personal "revelations" of style...
...style is Leibowitz's rationale for this book, then it seems an unfortunate consequence the turgid, academic prose he has chosen to express his own. Between the pages of plot summary, the endless intellectual bragging and the almost repetitive invocations of some nebulous American national "identity," Fabricating Lives gets lost in its own pretentiousness...
...pages of text, there is certainly no need to read the footnotes: the book itself is an extended citation of Leibowitz's Ph.D coursework...