From a Darkened Room: The Inman Diary (Inman Fund) - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 067445443X ISBN 13: 9780674454439

Casa editrice: Harvard University Press, 1996

Riassunto

THE INMAN DIARIES
a chamber opera by Thomas Oboe Lee
based on the life and writings of Arthur Crew Inman

and on the play Visitations by Lorenzo DeStefano

INTERMEZZO NEW ENGLAND CHAMBER OPERA SERIES
September 14-16, 2007
Tower Auditorium Theatre
Massachusetts College of Art
621 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA
617-899-4261 for further information
produced with the cooperation of Harvard University Press

Only a few of us seek immortality, and fewer still by writing. But Arthur Inman challenged the odds. He calculated that if he kept a diary and spared no thoughts or actions, was entirely honest and open, and did not care about damage or harm to himself or others, he would succeed in gaining attention beyond the grave that he could not attain in life.

The diary became a many-layered and strikingly animated work of a gifted writer, by turns charming, repellent, shocking, cruel, and comical. But the diary is also an uninhibited history of his times, of his eccentricities and fantasies, of his bizarre marriage arrangements and sexual adventures. Inman's explorations of his own troubled nature made him excessively curious about the secret lives of others. Like some ghostly doctor-priest, he chronicled their outpourings of head and heart as vividly as he did his own. The diary reads like a nonfiction novel as it moves inexorably toward disaster.

This is an abridged version of the celebrated two-volume work published by Harvard as
The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Daniel Aaron is Victor S. Thomas Professor of English and American Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University.

Product Description:

Arthur Inman calculated that if he kept a diary and spared no thoughts or actions, was entirely honest and open, and did not care about damage or harm to himself or others, he would succeed in gaining attention beyond the grave that he could not attain in life. The diary became a many-layered and animated work of a writer. But the diary is also an uninhibited history of his times, of his eccentricities and fantasies, of his bizarre marriage arrangements and sexual adventures. Inman's explorations of his own troubled nature made him excessively curious about the secret lives of others. He chronicled their outpourings as he did his own. The diary reads like a non-fiction novel as it moves inexorably toward disaster.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 067445443X
• ISBN 13: 9780674454439
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 592
• Redattore: Aaron Daniel