Of what it means to be a writer or any kind of creative artist. I think that this stems from a misconception You know they belong to Alcoholics Anonymous or have embraced religion or plunged headlong into some political activity with nothing but an inchoate emotionalism to bring to it or to be derived from it. Otherwise they get panicky, and the first thing The "get-ahead" principle, carried to such extreme, inspires our writers to enormous efforts. In America the career almost invariably becomes an obsession. Moreover,īecause success and public attention operate as a sort of pressure cooker or freezer, there has been a discouraging tendency for the talent to bake or congeal at a premature level of inner development. Even in past decades the first novel has usually been written during the writers' first years out of college. It has been a good while since first novels in America have come from men in their middle or late thirties (Paul Bowles is 38). In the appearance of "The Sheltering Sky," Paul Bowles' first novel. That is precisely the event to be celebrated On for those gifts that arrive by no other way than the experience and contemplation of a truly adult mind, now is obviously a perfect time for a writer with such a mind to engage our attention. DecemAn Allegory of Man and His Sahara By TENNESSEE WILLIAMSįter several literary seasons given over, mostly, to the frisky antics of kids, precociously knowing and singularly charming, but not to be counted
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