Adolphe de Castro (1859–1959)
Author of The Loved Dead And Other Revisions
About the Author
Works by Adolphe de Castro
Jewish forerunners of Christianity 2 copies
The Last Test 2 copies
Associated Works
Weird Tales Volume 29 Number 5, May 1937 — Contributor — 2 copies
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- Canonical name
- de Castro, Adolphe
- Other names
- Danziger, Gustav Adolf
Danziger, Adolph
Danziger, Adolphe
De Castro, Adolphe
Dancygier, Abram (birth name) - Birthdate
- 1859-11-06
- Date of death
- 1959-03-04
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Poland
- Birthplace
- Dobrzyń nad Wisłą, Kingdom of Poland
- Place of death
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Places of residence
- Los Angeles, California, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
Bonn, Germany
St Louis, Missouri, USA
Vincennes, Indiana, USA
New York, New York, USA (show all 9)
Madrid, Spain
Mexico
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK - Occupations
- scholar
journalist
lawyer
poet
novelist
short story writer
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Statistics
- Works
- 11
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 167
- Popularity
- #127,264
- Rating
- 3.3
- Reviews
- 1
- ISBNs
- 4
This odd and close look at the life of a beautiful literary scorpion is disorienting in its blindness. Chronology is flexible; De Castro ignores Bierce's head wound, one of his children, and several intermittent decades of his life, while professing the intimacy of their friendship. All the same the letters, photographs, and anecdotes provide a fascinating and direct look at the man Bierce. The impression I am left with is as strange and striking as the drawn floating head of Ambrose opposing the title page in my edition (original 1929, withdrawn from the Dayton Metro library, likely a Hara Arena book sale acquisition). The man lived the modern conundrum: a critic and moral agent incorruptible by the rampant scandal and literary games of his time, while also a cog in Hearst's machine as he grew his dynasty. If only we could all vanish into Mexico.… (more)