The Red Hot Vacuum: And Other Pieces On The Writing Of The Sixties
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A landmark work of American literary criticism, The Red Hot Vacuum presents Theodore Solotaroff's incisive assessments of the defining writers of the 1960s. As editor-in-chief of the influential New American Review, Solotaroff was uniquely positioned to chronicle the chaotic creative ferment of that turbulent decade. The collection gathers penetrating essays on towering literary figures including Saul Bellow, William Burroughs, Philip Roth, Günter Grass, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Susan Sontag, illuminating what united and divided the era's most urgent voices. Written with intellectual authority and a keen critical eye, the book argues that the literature of the sixties was inseparable from the social and political upheaval that surrounded it, making it an indispensable document of a generation's creative conscience.
Author: Theodore Solotaroff
Format: Paperback
Published: 1970, Atheneum
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark work of American literary criticism, The Red Hot Vacuum presents Theodore Solotaroff's incisive assessments of the defining writers of the 1960s. As editor-in-chief of the influential New American Review, Solotaroff was uniquely positioned to chronicle the chaotic creative ferment of that turbulent decade. The collection gathers penetrating essays on towering literary figures including Saul Bellow, William Burroughs, Philip Roth, Günter Grass, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Susan Sontag, illuminating what united and divided the era's most urgent voices. Written with intellectual authority and a keen critical eye, the book argues that the literature of the sixties was inseparable from the social and political upheaval that surrounded it, making it an indispensable document of a generation's creative conscience.