Literary Lives
by Edward Sorel
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Award-winning caricaturist Edward Sorel uses his distinctive style to illustrate the strange and eccentric lives of ten iconic literary figures. Literary Lives features the brief, unauthorized biographies of ten larger-than-life literary figures: Tolstoy, Sartre, Eliot, Proust, Yeats, Brecht, Jung, Rand, Mailer, and Hellman. Amusing and sometimes hard to believe (but always absolutely true), Sorel's vignettes depict, among other sparkling moments, Proust investing in a male brothel so he can show more peep at its clientele through a keyhole; Rand launching a torrid affair with a prot#65533;g#65533; half her age; Hellman pleading the Fifth in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities; Yeats attending his first s#65533;ance; Simone de Beauvoir supplying Sartre with her students for his pleasure; Jung cozying up with the Nazis; Norman Mailer's disastrous candidacy for Mayor of New York; and Tolstoy setting his peasants free (and they, in turn, refusing to be emancipated). show lessTags
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Very informative. I haven't read any books by any of the literary people satirised in this book, and after reading this I probably won't
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism, Biography & Memoir, Graphic Novels & Comics
- DDC/MDS
- 809 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures
- LCC
- PN511 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Literary history Collections
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