As Max Saw It (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ludwik Begleiter
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1974-1990
- Setting: Massachusetts, Italy, China, Pennsylvania, and New York
- Principal Characters: Maximilian “Max” Hafter Strong, Charlie Swan, Toby, Camilla, Laura, Arthur, Roland Cartwright, Edwina, Emma Hafter Storrow, Wang Jun Jun, Edna
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Art or artists, Friendship, Adultery, Loyalty, AIDS, Wealth
- Locales: Boston, MA, New York, Pennsylvania, China, Italy
“I am curious about obligations,” declares Maximilian Hafter Strong, by way of explaining why he teaches contract law at Harvard University. A curiosity about obligations is obligatory for any reader who would profit from As Max Saw It, his fictional memoir of an unlikely friendship. Yet Max, who writes an acclaimed treatise on contracts, demonstrates his curiosity through distance, through strategies of evasion. Though he admits that “relationships did not stick to me,” As Max Saw It is a meditation on relationships and obligations that the law professor has,...
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