Literary Profile And Biography Of Author Estela Portillo
What strange beasts literary biographies are, how mixed their reasons for existing. The desire to read one must come from admiration for the writer’s work, but a literary biographer’s central concern ... LITERARY biography — the lives of writers — is a form of literature clearly deserving a very judicious survey; yet even within the confines of the English language, there has up to now, so far as I am ... Henry James, T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden did not want to endure a biography, and tried desperately but vainly to prevail against predatory life-writers. In his essay on the French novelist George Sand, ... In many cases, the literary wife is in fact a literary midwife, a valuable helpmate whose care and attention pull books out to see the light of day. Several male writers have depended entirely on ... Not unrelated to the trends in literary biography, The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982, recently published by Ecco, offers insight here. While there is some value in reading about the ...
Time: I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem In her stunning After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography, Chris Kraus wrote not of theory but of writing, creativity, and the depth a writer has to go to form an identity. She discusses Kathy Acker as ...
