Research Catalog

A lifetime burning in every moment : from the Journals of Alfred Kazin

Title
A lifetime burning in every moment : from the Journals of Alfred Kazin / selected and edited by the author.
Author
Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998.
Publication
New York : HarperCollins, ©1996.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
TextUse in library PS29.K38 A3 1996Off-site

Details

Additional Authors
Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Jewish American Writers NjP
Description
341 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
While leading an active life, Kazin has faithfully kept diaries from the late 1930s up to the present. A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment offers readers the best of thousands of pages of his journals, comprising an extraordinary picture of intellectual, social, political, and even celebrity life - including such figures as Bernard Berenson, Josephine Herbst, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Hannah Arendt - during the past five and a half decades. Kazin candidly reflects on his four marriages, his feelings about the Holocaust, his criticism of American society, the pleasure and stimulation of reading good writers (Simone Weil, Ignazio Silone, Joseph Conrad, and Saul Bellow, among others), his need to pray, his travels abroad and within the United States, and more.
Subject
  • Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998 > Diaries
  • Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998
  • Critics > United States > Biography
  • Critics
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Diary
  • Biography
  • diaries.
  • Biographies
  • Diaries
  • Diaries.
  • Biographies.
  • Journaux intimes.
Note
  • gift of Leonard L. Milberg '53 in honor of President Harold T. Shapiro.
Contents
1938-1945 -- 1945-1950 -- 1950-1978 -- 1978-1993 -- 1993-1995.
ISBN
  • 006019037X
  • 9780060190378
LCCN
96181044
OCLC
  • ocm34667985
  • 34667985
  • SCSB-2099638
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library