In 1988, at the age of 72, Milton Hindus, Brandeis professor and biographer and critic of Proust, C???line, Whitman, and Reznikoff, collected his miscellaneous essays. Some of them are personal (memoir and autobiography), others impersonal (criticism). The emphasis, Hindus writes, is on criticism "and the autobiographical revelations are present for whatever light they may shed upon the choice of subjects and the attitudes expressed in the criticism. My conviction is that the most important life is that of the mind, and if ...
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In 1988, at the age of 72, Milton Hindus, Brandeis professor and biographer and critic of Proust, C???line, Whitman, and Reznikoff, collected his miscellaneous essays. Some of them are personal (memoir and autobiography), others impersonal (criticism). The emphasis, Hindus writes, is on criticism "and the autobiographical revelations are present for whatever light they may shed upon the choice of subjects and the attitudes expressed in the criticism. My conviction is that the most important life is that of the mind, and if this does not transpire through all the author's work, then indeed he has written in vain."
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Fine in fine jacket. One of 250 hardbound copies, cloth over boards, with acetate dust jacket. Fine. 181 pp. Essays on Whitman, Reznikoff, Celine, etc.
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Near Fine. No Jacket as Issued. 8vo. Limited, Numbered, First, SIGNED edition; #97 of 100 signed, numbered, limited printings; in mylar protective wraps.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. 181 p. Sewn binding hand bound in pictorial boards. Acetate Dust Jacket. Book is straight with tight binding and clean text. Numbered 1/100 copies and signed on colophon by Milton Hindus.
