The Intellectual Follies (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Lionel Abel
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: The 1920’s to the 1980’s
- Setting: New York City and Paris
- Principal Characters: Lionel Abel, Michael, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Culture, History, Current events, Intellectuals, Social reform, Politics, Manners or customs, Social life, Youth, Lifestyles
Form and Content
In November of 1929, one month after the stock market crash which signaled the beginning of the Great Depression in the United States, eighteen-year-old Lionel Abel entered the world of Greenwich Village, a cultural mecca which attracted a wide assortment of interesting characters. During the years which followed Abel’s entrance into this world, groups of young radicals (adherents to Marxism in its many varieties) gathered in the various Village meeting places to discuss the implications of what they saw as an impending social revolution. Though they did not...
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