James Agee: Vistas of Perfection
source: http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/james-agee-vistas-of-perfection/
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James Agee has become a kind of legend for his tormented life and early death, no less than for his great books. If Agee had been able to exert greater control over his life and talent, he might have written more and lived longer; but he would not have written at the particular pitch of desperate sincerity and fearful compassion that has made him so beloved. When he died at the age of 45 in 1955, Agee seemed like a case of tragic unfulfillment.
It did not take long after Agee’s death for him to find the literary fame that had largely eluded him in life. In 1957, his novel “A Death in the Family” was published posthumously, and won the Pulitzer Prize. In the 1960s, “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” became enormously popular among a new generation of readers who were drawn to Agee’s concern with spirituality and social justice.
Includes a number of vintage photographs and a wonderful slide show of photographs by Walker Evans.
It did not take long after Agee’s death for him to find the literary fame that had largely eluded him in life. In 1957, his novel “A Death in the Family” was published posthumously, and won the Pulitzer Prize. In the 1960s, “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” became enormously popular among a new generation of readers who were drawn to Agee’s concern with spirituality and social justice.
Includes a number of vintage photographs and a wonderful slide show of photographs by Walker Evans.
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Yes, Agee was quite a man. His writings about the Alabama white tenant farmers helped to give me hope when I was growing up very poor in rural South Carolina.
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gentjim
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great story
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lj111
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this man was a very good writer--sad his life was so short.
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