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...arrested her husband and who then, impressed by Duras's literary reputation, tried to court her, confiding his dreams of owning an art bookshop. Duras does not neglect the vengeful postwar period, when Resistance members continued the battle, taking their turn at torturing and executing collaborators. No recent memoir has evoked the 1940s in France so eloquently or paid such close attention to suffering and emotional numbness. The diarist spares no one, neither the victims, the victors, the reader nor herself...
...existentialism (Being and Nothingness, 1943) and the chief guru to the postwar denizens of St. Germain des Pres. De Beauvoir was not far behind. She won the prestigious Prix Goncourt for her fourth novel, The Mandarins, an astringent survey of the Paris literary life as well as a memoir of her own affair with ^ Chicago Novelist Nelson Algren. More enduring fame came from her monumental manifesto The Second Sex (1949), one of the cornerstones of modern feminism...
...tributaries flowing toward a connecting sea. It is the idealization of "world culture," nurtured by the legendary Russian poet Osip Mandelstam. He died in one of Stalin's prison camps in the late '30s and was resurrected in Hope Against Hope and Hope Abandoned, the magnificent two-volume memoir by his wife Nadezhda. She died in 1980, and Brodsky recalls her life of outcast poverty and how she hid her husband's manuscripts in saucepans. In the end, her kitchen became a cultural pit stop for touring writers and scholars. She tired of the attention, Brodsky says, and looked forward...
...York City in 1955. He staged a revival of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending and became a friend and protege of Williams', and later of Robert Penn Warren's and William Styron's. Much of his work has been literary adaptation. His stage version of Jack Henry Abbott's prison memoir In the Belly of the Beast was taken up last year by theaters in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago...
...show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat." Ironically, he was a livelier and in some ways more interesting writer when he catered to public tastes. Goodbye to All That still crackles with malice and the vivid absurdities of trench warfare. I, Claudius, the imaginary memoir of a Roman emperor whom historians had largely derided or ignored, manages to be both intelligent and spellbinding...