Published January 28, 2008
by Yale University Press .
Written in English
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | 464 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL10319273M |
| ISBN 10 | 0300115059 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780300115055 |
In A Walker in the City, Alfred Kazin recalls his childhood in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn with such tactile specificity that readers, too, will smell "that good and deep odor of lox, of salami, of herrings and half-sour pickles" that emanated from the neighborhood story is set in the working-class Jewish community of New York City in the decade preceding the Great Cited by: Alfred Kazin book. Read 3 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Born in to barely literate Jewish immigrants in the Brownsville se 4/5. A WALKER IN THE CITY, is a kind of sensory tour Kazin's childhood in Brownsville, NYC. It begins, "Every time I go back to Brownsville it is as if I had never been away. From the moment I step off the train at Rockaway Avenue and smell the leak out of the men's room, then the pickles from the stand just below the subway steps, an instant rage /5. Kazin&#;s memorable description of his life as a young man as he makes the journey from Brooklyn to &#;americanca&#;-the larger world that begins at the other end of the subway in Manhattan. A classic portrayal of the Jewish immigrant culture of /5(5).
Alfred Kazin was born on June 5, , the son of Charles Kazin, a house painter, and the former Gita Fagelman, a dressmaker, both of whom had emigrated as youths from Czarist Russia. Alfred Kazin was born in Brooklyn in His first book of criticism, On Native Grounds (), was a groundbreaking study of American literature that changed radically our way of looking at it, and established him overnight as a major : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. About Alfred Kazin. ALFRED KAZIN was born in Brooklyn in His first book of criticism, On Native Grounds (), was a groundbreaking study of American literature that changed radically our way of looking at it, and established him overnight as a major figure. Alfred Kazin Kazin said of his motivations to write, “From my first conscious moments I was absorbed in the most intimate problems of the working class, in the fire and color of immigrant life. I was by temperament created for the idea of revolution, in the sense of making the world over and creating a .
The first biography of Alfred Kazin–inveterate New Yorker, autobiographer, and perhaps the last great man of American letters in the tradition of Edmund Wilson Born in to barely literate Jewish immigrants in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, Alfred Kazin rose from near poverty to become a dominant figure in twentieth-century literary. alfred kazin Download alfred kazin or read online books in PDF, EPUB, Tuebl, and Mobi Format. Click Download or Read Online button to get alfred kazin book now. This site is like a library, Use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Discover Book Depository's huge selection of Alfred Kazin books online. Free delivery worldwide on over 20 million titles. Alfred Kazin, Essayist. Contemporaries. by Alfred Kazin. Little, Brown. pp. $ I must first of all take up an unwarranted and, I think, malicious attack on Alfred Kazin’s new book of essays, attack, appearing in the guise of a book review in the New Republic (J ) was made by Joseph Heller, author of the popular and, I am told, interesting novel, Catch
