Newberry Library - Blake, James, (letters from prison to Conroy and Algren), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n. d., 1946-1959

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Title Blake, James, (letters from prison to Conroy and Algren), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n. d., 1946-1959

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date n. d., 1946-1959

Place United States

Language English

Subjects Authors, American, Bohemianism, New Left, Radicalism in literature, Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Illinois

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription April 27, 1952Dear Jack - Enjoyed the Rose Macaulay "Told By An Idiot" very much. The lady has a deadly aim. And in telling a comprehensive and illuminating tale of the period from late Victorian to World War I she manages, with lethal gentility, to slit a number of gullets. Nice light malice, and some satisfactory assassination.I liked her account of the critic who hailed Hall Caine's advent as the Second Coming, and then deciding he had been wrong, changed his name, unable to go on living under such a handicap. They took those things more seriously in those days - I don't look for the subsequent career of James Jones, for instance, to being on a rash of aliases in the critical fraternity - But that is prophecy, not only risky but impertinent.I've been reading the Short novels of Colette - Hers is a perfumed and feverish indoor world, where loving and being loved is of terrible crushing importance. Her small canvases are shrewdly and deftly done, with a kind of astringent compassion, and full of sudden flashes: "Chere, devoid of humour, came up against Lea's pleasantry like an ant against a piece of coal." Damn the woman!And I, a silly wretch in a constant turmoil of infatuation(over)

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 3 Folder 129

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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