Encounters /
This engaging book presents a series of word portraits by and about some of the notable figures of our time. In each chapter, a well-known person from the world of arts and letters recalls a memorable encounter with another famous individual who is no longer living--for example, Isaiah Berlin on Edm...
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- L'AprGs-midi de Mary Garden
- Edmund Wilson at Oxford
- Playing Chess with Arthur Koestler
- Alva Myrdal
- Meeting Matisse
- My Summer with Sinclair Lewis
- Charles Olson and an American Place
- Alan Jay Lerner: Words and Music
- Mr. Randolph
- Seeking Out Christina Stead
- Jean Renoir
- Three Passions of Paul Hindemith
- Notes after Austin
- An Exemplary Edmund Wilson
- Courier for Jacques Lacan
- Remembering Auden
- Maugham
- Le Patron, Jean Piaget