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Title: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories by Delmore Schwartz, James Atlas, Irving Howe ISBN: 0-8112-0680-7 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: April, 1978 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Schwartz's Gift
Comment: This collection of stories is graced by two introductions and lives up to every superlative. Irving Howe and biographer James Atlas note for the reader Delmore Schwartz's unfailing ear for the idiom of his parents' generation. Each of the stories is a masterpiece and competes, in terms of quality, with the Schwartz poetry. Having read James Atlas's biography of Delmore Schwartz this reader thinks of tragic waste and pain when thinking of Schwartz. And yet, and yet, when one considers the brilliance of these stories, the fact that his mere existence inspired the wonderful novel HUMBOLDT'S GIFT by Saul Bellow, and that he evoked intense loyality from his students the picture shifts to a life of immense achievement not disproportionate to his evident gift. This New Directions Paperback has a compelling photograph on the cover.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant
Comment: The best of the stories in here are brilliant. The dialogue is great, as well as the reflective passages. That a mediocre short story writer like Raymond Carver is lauded, while Schwartz is relatively obscure, shows that the cream does NOT rise to the top. I've read passages of these stories a number of times. I can't praise them highly enough.
Rating: 5
Summary: Your "Responsibility" to Find Great Literature Ends Here
Comment: Five of the stories here are flat-out masterpieces ("In Dreams;" "The World is a Wedding;" "New Year's Eve;" "The Commencement Address;" and "The Track Meet"), while the other 3 are extremely well done, if not as wholly satisfying. This collection should be required reading in every contemporary lit. class. It's got everything: all the themes of struggle, frustration and defeat, responsibility, ambition, all the thoughts that men have thought in every age, and captures its era so perfectly and completely I am in awe. Even though the stories are, in some ways similar (especially "In Dreams," "The Commencement Address," and "The Track Meet"), they are utterly original, beautiful, hallucinatory, profound, funny and heartbreaking. Schwartz -- that great voice speaking out against the crowd -- deserves to be heard at last.
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Title: Selected Poems Summer Knowledge: Summer Knowledge (New Directions Paperbook, 241) by Delmore Schwartz ISBN: 0811201910 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: October, 1967 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet by James Atlas ISBN: 1566491207 Publisher: Welcome Rain Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Lou Reed: Emotion in Action by Lou Reed ISBN: 3882439238 Publisher: Steidl Publishing Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Pass Thru Fire : The Collected Lyrics by Lou Reed ISBN: 0786887281 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Saul Bellow ISBN: 0140189440 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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