Various (Phillips, William (Editor); Rahv, Philip (Editor); Bellow, Saul; Hemingway, Ernest; Fiedler, Leslie; Gilliatt, Penelope; Shapiro, Karl; Lowell, Robert; Sontag, Susan; Spender, Stephen et al.)

Partisan Review Vol. XXIX No. 3 (Summer 1962)

New York, NY, USA: Partisan Review, 1962. First Edition. “The recent Partisan Review symposium on “The Cold War and the Future of the West” is just one striking piece of evidence for a change of mind among the Western intellectuals. Anti-Communism, as a basic and comprehensive view of the world, is on its way out. Things were said in the symposium which could not have been said in PR–or, at any rate, were not said in PR–ten or even five years ago. The American case, it is true, is rather special: the decline of anti-Communism among the intellectuals has been accompanied by a recrudescence of a popular anti-Communism which has assumed forms far more malignant than McCarthyism. This has reinforced (and may well have been reinforced by) the increasingly open skepticism of the intellectuals as to the value and probable results of the persecution of the cold war…”--Norman Birnbaum, “The Coming End of Anti-Communism,” pg 386. This vintage 1962 number of the prestigious American literary journal chiefly edited by William Phillips & Philip Rahv features the above-quoted critical essay by Norman Birnbaum (1926-2019), American sociologist. This issue also contains: “The Bourgeois Poet” by Karl Shapiro (1913-2000) American poet and social critic; a critical essay "On Hemingway" on the works of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), the great American journalist, writer and novelist; scenes from “Humanitis: A Farce” a play by Saul Bellow (1915-2005) Canadian-American writer, poet, and playwright; "The Vision of the Modern" a critical essay by Stephen Spender (1909-1995), the great English poet, novelist and essayist; the literary criticism essay “Demons and Dreams” by Susan Sontag (1933-2004) American writer, critic, and public intellectual; six poems by Robert Lowell (1917-1977) the great American poet, among many other great contributors! Trade-format softcover, presumed first-&-only printing. From the collection of Lawrence Goldstein (1943-2023), a renowned American poet, author, film critic, editor & academician here at the University of Michigan. In relatively near fine condition with moderate wear to fine edges, one crease to bottom right corner of front cover, light pencil markings to front cover, some blue pen markings to back cover near top, slight wear/creasing to spine, and slight discoloration due to age. Near Fine. [Item #7785]

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