Alienation: The Cultural Climate of Modern Man, Volume I

by Gerald Sykes (editor)

Hardcover, 1964

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Available

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George Braziller (1964), Hardcover

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BOOK ONE: VICTIMS

this neutrality toward death:
siegfried giedion, fyodor dostoevsky, gustav herling, henri alleg, erich fromm, erich kahler

i watched them disappear:
stanley kunitz, james agee, henry miller, edward dahlberg, paul goodman, ralph ellison, norman mailer, william burroughs

public smile, private blank:
peter viereck, randall jarrell, kenneth rexroth

those of the inhabitants of sodom who were spared:
marcel proust, jean genet, jean-paul sartre, sherwood anderson, w.h. auden

BOOK TWO: PERSPECTIVES

the test of a first-rate intelligence:
f. scott fitzgerald, george santayana, charles peguy, paul valery

the creative mind in america is fragmented:
philip rahv, walt whitman, henry james, theodore dreiser

and that is called nihilism:
ivan turgenev, nicolas berdyaev, max braunschweig

the way they look at you is perfect:
henri michaux, d.t. suzuki, arthur koestler

laid down his scythe:
marcel ayme, alejo carpentier, hugo von hofmannsthal
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