Alfred Kazin
Alfred Kazin
Alfred Kazinwas an American writer and literary critic, many of whose writings depicted the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth5 June 1915
CountryUnited States of America
reading ideas long
I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library) looking for something. I, too, was seeking fame and fortune by sitting at the end of a long golden table next to the sets of American authors on the open shelves.
loss ideas generations
Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new generations out of the realization that the old formal culture-the "New England idea"-could no longer serve.
writing order ideas
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.