Kafka Was the Rage
A Greenwich Village Memoir
$22.73
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
24 June 1997
Summary
What Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast did for Paris in the 1920s, this charming yet undeceivable memoir does for Greenwich Village in the late 1940s. In 1946, Anatole Broyard was a dapper, earnest, fledgling avant-gardist, intoxicated by books, sex, and the neighborhood that offered both in such abundance. Stylishly written, mercurially witty, imbued with insights that are both affectionate and astringent, this memoir offers an indelible portrait of a lost bohemia.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679781264 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679781269 |
| Author: | Anatole Broyard |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 24 June 1997 |
| Weight: | 187g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 131mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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Critics Review
“A memoir of a sensualist… Sentence by sentence, it’s as beautifully precise as any contemporary American work I know.”- Pauline Kael
“If you’ve ever been young, ever lived in or wanted to live in Greenwich Village, ever loved books or sex or both, you’ll savor this memoir.”- Detroit Free Press
“Full of Broyard’s wit, compassion and rich insight… His mind, his aesthetic, his view of the world, shimmer brightly in this memoir.”- Chicago Tribune
“Seductive, ardently written…a valentine with barbs.”- Washington Post Book World
About The Author
Anatole Broyard
Anatole Broyard was a book critic, columnist, and editor for The New York Times for eighteen years. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Intoxicated by My Illness and Kafka Was The Rage- A Greenwich Village Memoir. He died in 1990 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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