A partisan view : five decades of the literary life

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This volume portrays the life and eventful times of the man who edited one of America's most important intellectual magazine, the Partisan Review, for over 50 years. His memoir of life at PR reflects the relationship between literature and politics in American culture in the 1930s and helps analyze the difficulties that intellectuals and creative artists have in relating their ideological commitments to their work. The volume contains sprightly accounts of Phillips' dealings with a host of famous writers such as Bellow, Malamud, Mailer, Sontag and others, his relationship with his partner Philip Rahv, chronicling the various moves to the Right and Left by well-known intellectuals of the period. ISBN 0-8128-2913-X : $19.95.  Read more... 1. History remade -- 2. The center and the fringes -- 3. Growing out of the Twenties -- 4. The Thirties -- 5. The new Partisan review -- 6. Writers on the left -- 7. The new talent -- 8. The painters -- 9. The Forties -- 10. A charmed circle -- 11. European connections -- 12. The big time -- 13. Cultural freedom abroad -- 14. Cultural freedom at home -- 15. Victims and critics -- 16. Discovering Europe -- 17. An American in London -- 18. Writers in the Fifties -- 19. Realpolitik -- 20. Writers and politics -- 21. The Sixties -- 22. Friends and arrangements -- 23. Coexistence -- 24. D-Day -- 25. Then and now -- 26. Index.