An appointment with Somerset Maugham : and other literary encounters /
""Now, just ask yourself," Maugham said without the least suggestion of a stutter, "wouldn't it be a dreadful world if pleasure ruled?" But pleasure has ruled Richard Costa's world - the pleasure of books and their writers. In this charming and insightful reminisce...
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
©1994.
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| Izdaja: | 1st ed. |
| Online dostop: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=18133 |
Kazalo:
- pt. 1. The troubling case of Somerset Maugham: Prologue: Abiding gods
- Somerset Maugham and the Driffield position
- Maugham's "partial self": the "unexpected view" on the way to Tolstoy's "Death of Ivan Ilych"
- The wages of notoriety -an update
- pt. 2. The dismantling of favor: Prologue: In deepest regions
- H.G. Wells and the Palimpsest of time
- The anxiety of confluence
- Conrad Aiken and the "Tom" catastrophe
- Ground rule for "marginal" memoir: being heard but not seen
- The sentence(ing) of Edmund Wilson
- The "burrowing" of literary moles: Turgenev and Flaubert
- The triumph of Richard Ellmann
- Friendship, Francini, and the Triestine Joyce
- pt. 3. The serious business of comedy, innocence, and homage to the Hemingways: Prologue: Lucky Jim and Johnny come lately
- Laughing with the early Kingsley Amis
- Dorothy Parker: nothing sacred
- The custodianship of Mary Hemingway
- Edith Wharton's age of innocence -and mine
- pt. 4. The consul and other notations from underground: How I "discovered" Under the volcano
- Pietà, Pelado, and "the ratification of death": the ten-year evolvement of Malcolm Lowry's Volcano
- The ordeal of Margerie Lowry
- Writing as failed therapy: Tennessee Williams and James Baldwin
- Cheerless books that cheer
- Notes form a dark heller: Bob Slocum and the underground man
- Afterword: "Our last man of letters" and other legacies.