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Nelson Algren
. “Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards,” he wrote. That was a unique vision in 1953, and it still is; its suppression weakened our literary tradition.
http://www.believermag.com/issues/201301/?read=article_asher
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Jan/7/2013, 10:06 am
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Re: Nelson Algren
Good Lord, Chris. Algren's own life was like a novel, wasn't it?
For Algren, writing is not a trade or a hobby. It is a calling that requires practitioners give more of themselves emotionally than they can afford, and demands they tell the truest stories they possibly can, the kind that make the teller partner to the actions of their subjects, and create complicity in the telling. Everything else is just words on a page. In exchange for these sacrifices he guarantees no reward. Instead he promises commercial failure and the risk of emotional collapse, yet keeps faith with his vision and claims the other side asks more. They demand conformity.
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Jan/9/2013, 6:21 pm
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PS Found this in the footnotes:
6.There is no way to avoid mentioning that Algren and de Beauvoir became lovers, but I don’t have space to do their relationship justice so I won’t try. They had a long-distance love affair that lasted many years; readers interested in the details can find many in the books The Mandarins, America Day by Day, and A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren.
The Mandarins was one of my favorite novels once upon a long time ago.
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Jan/9/2013, 6:43 pm
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hey Kat,
Yes, he led a LIFE for sure. Thanks for that
heads-up re: "The Mandarins."
Chris
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