The Author-Cat: Clemens's Life in Fiction
A comprehensive reading of Mark Twain's major workAt the end of his long life, Samuel Clemens felt driven to write a truthful account of what he regarded as the flaws in his character and the errors of his ways. His attempt to tell the unvarnished truth about himself is preserved in nearly 250 autobiographical dictations. In order to encourage complete veracity, he decided from the outset that these would be published only posthumously.Nevertheless, Clemens's autobiography is singularly unrevealing. Forrest G. Robinson argues that, by contrast, it is in his fiction that Clemens most fully-if often inadvertently-reveals himself. He was, he con…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8232-2787-7
- EAN: 9780823227877
- Produktnummer: 2999222
- Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 242 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B16.5 cm x D2.2 cm 916 g
- Gewicht: 916
Über den Autor
Forrest G. Robinson is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His many publications include In Bad Faith: The Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain's America and The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain, which he edited. He is co-editor, with Susan Gillman, of Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson: Race, Conflict, and Culture.
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