Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
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托马斯·杰斐逊：一段亲密的历史
DOI：
10.1080/03612759.1974.9946412
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1974
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H. Barnes
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H. Barnes
德沃托会反对有人写他的传记，宁愿他的作品为他说话，但他会称赞他的同事斯特格纳作为他的博斯韦尔的选择，如果有机会，他会高兴地喜欢斯特格纳写的每一页。因为斯特格纳从德沃托那里学到了一个故事必须移动，他有令人羡慕的技巧，把文字图片变成流动的描述性句子，同时通过他发表和未发表的散文，信件，书评，小说和历史卷来解释德沃托的生活。此外，小说家现在传记作家Stegner提炼出这些作品的见解与他对美国文学的敏锐理解和作家的苦难谁敢于裸露自己的灵魂在公众通过小说和散文和短篇小说在光滑的杂志真正欣赏。如果这不是德沃托的权威传记，它将成为文学，历史和作家的“内幕”故事，讲述作家如何以及为什么在美国系统内崛起和衰落，生产，动摇，成功，教学，爱，鄙视，批评，编辑，评论，饮酒，度假，出版和启蒙;它必须与雷艾伦比林顿一起沿着添加到我们伟大的作家书架上
DeVoto would have disdained the thought of someone writing his biography, preferring his works speak for him, but he would have lauded the selection of his colleague Stegner as his Boswell, and, given the chance, he would have gleefully loved every page that Stegner wrote. For Stegner had learned from DeVoto that a story must move and he has the enviable skill to throw word pictures into flowing, descriptive sentences all the while explaining the life of DeVoto through his published and unpublished essays, letters, book reviews, novels, and historical volumes. Moreover, novelist-now-biographer Stegner distills the insights of these works with his keen understanding of American literature and the true appreciation of the tribulations of writers who dare to bare their souls in public via novels and essays and short stories in slick magazines. If this is not the definitive biography of DeVoto, it will become the literary, historical, and publishers’“inside” story of how and why authors rise and fall, produce, falter, succeed, teach, love, despise, critic, edit, review, drink, vacation, publish, and enlighten within the American system; it must be added to our great writers shelf along with Ray Allen Billington’s