New York: New Directions Book, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 5x1x8. First edition. Jacket spine toned, edge wear to jacket. 1980 Hard Cover. 257 pp. Harry Levinâ€™s Memories of the Moderns, originally published by New Directions in 1980, is now presented in New Directions Paperbook format. This gathering of prose piecesâ€“â€“reviews, essays, lectures, introductions, personal recollections, and epistles, written for the most part during the 1970sâ€“â€“combines criticism with reminiscence and is both an exploration of the idea of modernism within the international frame of comparative literature and a valediction. By now, what was so avant-garde, experimental, difficult, and sometimes shocking in the writings of the twentieth-century modernists has permanently altered our literatureâ€“â€“the groundbreakers have become our classics. Discussed here are Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Heinrich and Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, William Carlos Williams, Conrad Aiken, Jean-Paul Sartre (writing on Flaubert), Francis Ponge, W. H. Auden, Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, I. A. Richards, Edmund Wilson, Vladimir Nabokov, and F. O. Mathiessen. There is as well an opening letter to James Laughlin, who published Harry Levinâ€™s seminal book on James Joyce in 1941.

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Bookseller: Yesterday's Muse Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2338988
Title: Memories of the Moderns
Author: Levin, Harry
Format/Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0811207331
ISBN 13: 9780811207331
Publisher: New Directions Book
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1980
Size: 5x1x8
Keywords: BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY MEMOIRS LITERATURE LITERARY
X weight: 22 oz

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