Böcker av Alfred Kazin

Step into the world of 20th century literature and culture through the eyes of one of America's most acclaimed critics. Featuring essays on writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and William Faulkner, as well as insights into popular culture, politics, and the arts, Contemporaries is a fascinating and wide-ranging collection.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Blending autobiography, history, and criticism, this book is a reaffirmation of literature in an age of deconstruction and critical dogma and stands as testimony to Kazin's belief that "literature is not theory but, at best, the value we can give to our experience, which in our century has been and remains beyond the imagination of mankind."