In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories

A new edition of the definitive book on the depression-era immigrant experience in New York City.
Now with an exciting new preface by rock musician Lou Reed (Delmore Schwartzâ‚¬s student at Syracuse), In Dreams Begin Responsibilities collects eight of Schwartzâ‚¬s finest delineations of New Yorkâ‚¬s intellectuals in the 1930s and 1940s. As no other writer can, Schwartz captures the speech, the generational conflicts, the mocking self-analysis of educated, ambitious, Depression-stymied young people at odds with their immigrant parents. This is the unique American dilemma Irving Howe described as â‚¬Å“that interesting point where intellectual children of immigrant Jews are finding their way into the larger world while casting uneasy, rueful glances over their backs.â‚¬Â Afterwords by James Atlas and Irving Howe place the stories in their historical and cultural setting.
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780811220033
ReleaseDate 2012-06-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811220033

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