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- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 28, Number 4, Fall 2005
- pp. 699-734
- 10.1353/bio.2006.0005
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Contributing editors Nell Altizer, Pat Angley, Alana Bell, Judith Lüutge Coullie, Michael Fassiotto, Marie-Christine Garneau, Théo Garneau, Douglas Hilt, Noel Kent, Gabriel Merle, Dawn Morais, Barbara Bennett Peterson, Forrest R. Pitts, and Valeria Wenderoth provided the excerpts for this issue.
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Akhmatova, Anna
"This volume is a magnificent achievement for Elaine Feinstein, previously mainly known as a biographer of, among others, the tragic English poet Ted Hughes, the classic Russian versifier Pushkin, killed in a duel, and the female Russian poet Marina Tsvetayeva, a contemporary in time and in suffering of Feinstein's latest subject. It is a book that will greatly advance the understanding in the West of one of the defining literary personalities of the bloody and heartbreaking 20th century."
Alain-Fournier, Henri Fournier dit
"Perhaps my future book will be an imperceptable, continuous coming and going between dream and reality," said the budding author of Le Grand Meaulnes to his friend Jacques Rivière. It was. Violaine Massenet goes back over the years of apprenticeship and the patient conquest of literary maturity of one of the rarest writers of the Belle Epoque. In Alain-Fournier the nostalgia of childhood was an inexhaustible symbol: it was a drama, akin to the Christian theme of the-world-before-the-Sin, or to the brutal disappearance of what Stefan Zweig called the world of yesterday.
Amiry, Suad
"The title . . . refers to the source of Amiry's main irritants during the height of the al-Aqsa intifada in spring, 2002, when the army's invasion of Ramallah forces Amiry to take in her 92-year-old mother-in-law. . . . Amiry's approach . . . is to chronicle the stuff of daily life, rather than to pontificate on weighty issues. . . . Amiry's voice is authentically Palestinian, and her anecdotes provide a close-up of life in the West Bank that takes the reader much further than daily newspaper articles do."
Andersen, Hans Christian
The biography moves "backward and forward in time, placing Andersen within a vivid social history. . . . [P]art of the challenge Jens Andersen has set for himself [is] to cut through some of the myths, many of them of the author's own making." The book is "a great gift to the English-speaking world on this 200th anniversary of Andersen's birth."
Arendt, Hannah
This bizarre thing is not really a diary, still less an intimate diary; it is a kind of "portable archive," lightening the foundations of her work, and in particular the links between the origins of totalitarianism and the condition of modern man. This publication, which will probably be more useful to researchers than to the general...
