In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Delmore Schwartz
- First Published: 1937
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Dreams, Emotions, Criticism, Generation gap
- Locales: Brooklyn, NY
The Work
The short story “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities,” which lends its title to the title of this collection of prose, poetry, and drama, was apparently written over a weekend in July, 1935. Vladimir Nabokov recognized its merit and recommended it as the lead piece in the Partisan Review. Schwartz’s literary career was launched. The enigmatic title suggests that destiny is located in dreams, what Schwartz would later call in his fictional autobiography Genesis (1943) “a fixed hallucination.” The attempt to realize dreams in poetry and to...
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