Alfred Kazin Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

Un niño, hijo de modestos trabajadores emigrantes ruso-judíos, camina por su barrio antes de cruzar el puente de Brooklyn hacia la Nueva York de los años veinte. Este viaje se convierte en un pasaje hacia el conocimiento durante su infancia y adolescencia, un tiempo propicio para los grandes descubrimientos. Kazin, crítico literario y historiador de la cultura, observa la pérdida de una voz narrativa propia del patrimonio literario judío, que, como señala su amigo Yaron Ezrahi, cultiva la soledad y la autobiografía. Retomando esta tradición, Kazin nos presenta su barrio, Brownsville, y el camino que tuvo que recorrer en solitario hacia el conocimiento: libros, lengua, literatura, música, metafísica, política, la ciudad y el mundo. Carson McCullers reconoció la obra como una maestra. Kazin, nacido en Brooklyn en 1915, estudió en el City College de Nueva York y en la Universidad de Columbia. Su carrera abarcó clases en Harvard y Berkeley, así como numerosos artículos y libros de crítica literaria y autobiográficos. Asociado a los New York Intellectuals, mantuvo una larga amistad con Hannah Arendt. Tras cinco años de investigación, escribió "On Native Grounds", el primer estudio serio de la literatura americana de 1890 a 1940. Recibió el premio Truman Capote en 1996 por su labor crítica.

“Alfred Kazin chose America as his subject, and his intellectual awakening is itself something of an American legend. . . . Ted Solotaroff’s selection of his work is a fitting tribute, a book that will be a starting point for further reading, both of Kazin and of the native writers to whom he devoted himself” — The New Yorker Over the course of 60 years, Alfred Kazin’s writings confronted virtually all of our major imaginative writers, from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson to James Wright and Joyce Carol Oates and including such unexpected figures as Abraham Lincoln, William James and Thorstein Veblen. It is fair to say that he succeeded Edmund Wilson as the secretary of American letters. At the same time this son of immigrant Russian Jews wrote out of the tensions of the outsider and the astute, outspoken leftist. Editor Ted Solotaroff has selected material from Kazin’s three classic memoirs to accompany these critical writings. The excerpts include sharply etched portraits of the Brownsville, Greenwich Village, Upper West Side, and Cape Cod literary milieus and of such figures as Saul Bellow, Lionel Trilling, Edmund Wilson, and Hannah Arendt. Alfred Kazin's America provides an ongoing example of the spiritual freedom, individualism, and democratic contentiousness that he regarded as his heritage and endeavored to pass on.

A classic interpretation of literature from America's golden age-including the work of Howells, Wharton, Lewis, Cather, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner. New Preface by the Author; Index.

When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books were hard to sell, and the novel quickly dropped out of sight, as did its twenty-eight-year-old author. Only with its paperback publication in 1964 did the novel receive the recognition it deserves. Call It Sleep was the first paperback ever to be reviewed on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, and it proceeded to sell millions of copies both in the United States and around the world.

Americký básnik a esejista vyniká básnickým, metaforickým štýlom, čo sa prejavilo aj na literárnej hodnote jeho nadčasových esejí so silným mravným apelom. Súbor prináša eseje: Umenie, Básnik, Platón alebo filozof, Duchovné zákony, Hodnota a význam veľkých osobností, Sebadôvera, Charakter, Príroda.

Theodore Dreiser's first and perhaps most accessible novel, Sister Carrie is an epic of urban life - the story of an innocent heroine adrift in an indifferent city. When small-town girl Carrie Meeber sets out for Chicago, she is equipped with nothing but a few dollars, a certain unspoiled beauty and charm, and a pitiful lack of preparation for the complex moral choices she will face.

Presents a selection of fifteen short fiction stories by nineteenth-century American author Nathaniel Hawthorne.

A young man's adolescent dream of war is shattered when he takes part in the battle of Chancellorsville.

Chalúpka strýčka Toma. Všetky osudy postáv v nej, akokoľvek sú neuveriteľné, sa zakladajú na pravde. Černošskí hrdinovia – strýčko Tom, teta Chloe, George Harris a jeho žena Eliza, reprezentujú černošský ľud, utláčaný svojimi bielymi otrokármi, ale predsa bystrý, inteligentný, charakterný a často aj zbožný. Taktiež sú tu vykreslené aj protichodné povahy a názory otrokárov. Niektorí z nich boli tak krutí, že od nich inak pokojní a prispôsobiví "negrovia" utekali aj za cenu straty vlastného života do ďalekej Kanady, kde otrokárststvo už neexistovalo. A práve proti týmto bol namierený nový zákon o ich navrátení bývalým vlastníkom, ktorý inšpiroval Stowovú k napísaniu svojej knihy. Napriek veľkej snahe otrokárov hlavne z juhu zneškodniť toto dielo sa to našťastie nepodarilo a kniha veľkou mierou prispela k zrušeniu otrokárstva. Dodnes je zaujímavá pre mladých aj starších čitateľov. Štvrté vydanie

With U.S.A. John Dos Passos is said to have written the great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating their "own little corners", said Edmund Wilson, Dos Passos was taking on the world. Counted among the best novels of the century by the Modern Library and by some of the finest writers working today, U.S.A. is being talked about, studied, and read again, not just by students of modernism but by readers of all ages both here and abroad. Here is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation, buzzing with history and life on every page.A "fable of America's materialistic success and moral decline" (American Heritage), The Big Money returns from the war to a nation on the upswing. The stock market surges, Lindbergh takes his solo flight, Henry Ford makes automobiles. It is an America speeding toward the crash of 1929.