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"Process is a classic Bildungsroman and "a portrait of the artist as a young woman." Like James Joyce's Stephen Dedalus, Kerith Day is a sensitive youth, self-consciously in search of her own identity and place in the world. Observing with a keen and critical eye the dreary industrial landscape and the beaten-down inhabitants of her native Cincinnati, Ohio, Kerith determines to discover something better. Placing her faith in art and politics, she sets off for France, where workers and radicals are on the same side." "This novel captures the indignation and urge for independence that propelled the young Kay Boyle toward radical politics and literary experimentation. Aligned with the legendary circle of expatriate writers and artists in Paris in the 1920s, Boyle published some of her early poetry and fiction in the avant-garde little magazines, alongside the work of Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, and Ernest Hemingway. After the appearance of Boyle's first published novel in 1931, Katherine Anne Porter signaled her as one of the "most portentous" talents of her generation."--BOOK JACKET. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I'm working on a lengthy piece on Boyle now, which I'll place on my blog when it's finished.
This book is for Boyle completists only, although it does have an excellent and lengthy introduction on Boyle, her life, her work, and her politics by Sandra Spanier with which I think everyone new to Boyle should familiarize themselves.
Spanier herself happened upon this manuscript when collecting Boyle's letters for publication; so only posthumously was Boyle's "first novel" published. However, it seems wiser on Boyle's part to have asserted herself as an emerging and important stylist with Plagued By the Nightingale instead of Process, so the fact that this book was buried by her for so long is not so surprising—still, the politics in Process are more aligned with Boyle's later stance in her post-WWII fiction and prose, almost acting like a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts.
Rounded up from 3.5 stars because of the introduction by Spanier, and well... because this is Kay Boyle, after all. ( )