Hand to Mouth (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Auster
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: Early 1950’s to 1980
- Setting: New York, Paris, Dublin, and Mexico
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: France or French people, Authors or writers, Poverty or poor people, College life, Board games, Mysteries, Idealism
- Locales: New York, Mexico, Paris, France, Dublin, Ireland
Once upon a time, a literary autobiography generally was the confident offspring of an author’s autumnal musings on his or her life and art, the lingering retrospective gaze over a landscape already plowed and harvested. Such productions are not wholly extinct; Anthony Powell’s multivolume To Keep the Ball Rolling (1976-1982), which appeared only after Powell’s oeuvre had survived several decades of critical examination, is a splendid example of modern literary autobiography at its best. More apparent, though, is the proliferation of memoirs at mid-career. Paul...
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