Kafka Was the Rage

A Greenwich Village Memoir

Anatole Broyard

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English

Random House USA Inc
24 June 1997

Biography; Social & cultural history

What Hemingway's A Moveable Feast did for Paris in the 1920s, this charming yet undeceivable memoir does for Greenwich Village in the late 1940s. In 1946, Anatole Broyard was a dapper, earnest, fledgling avant-gardist, intoxicated by books, sex, and the neighborhood that offered both in such abundance. Stylish written, mercurially witty, imbued with insights that are both affectionate and astringent, this memoir offers an indelible portrait of a lost bohemia.

We see Broyard setting up his used bookstore on Cornelia Street-indulging in a dream that was for him as romantic as ""living off the land or sailing around the world"" while exercizing his libido with a protegee of Anais Nin and taking courses at the New School, where he deliberates on ""the new trends in art, sex, and psychosis."" Along the way he encounters Delmore Schwartz, Caitlin and Dylan Thomas, William Gaddis, and other writers at the start of their careers. Written with insight and mercurial wit, Kafka Was the Rage elegantly captures a moment and place and pays homage to a lost bohemia as it was experienced by a young writer eager to find not only his voice but also his place in a very special part of the world.

By: Anatole Broyard
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 187g
ISBN: 9780679781264
ISBN 10: 0679781269
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 24 June 1997
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anatole Broyard was a book critic, columnist, and editor for The New York Times for eighteen years. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Intoxicated by My Illness and Kafka Was The Rage- A Greenwich Village Memoir. He died in 1990 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Reviews for Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

A memoir of a sensualist Sentence by sentence, it s as beautifully precise as any contemporary American work I know. - Pauline Kael If you ve ever been young, ever lived in or wanted to live in Greenwich Village, ever loved books or sex or both, you ll savor this memoir. - Detroit Free Press Full of Broyard s wit, compassion and rich insight His mind, his aesthetic, his view of the world, shimmer brightly in this memoir. - Chicago Tribune Seductive, ardently written a valentine with barbs. - Washington Post Book World