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An essay is an exercise in communicating the essence of argumentationat best a presentation of whatever seems worth consideration either today or might be tomorrow. Occasions set down in words are arbitrary, precarious, at best haphazard. They are brought forward by impulses from the world outside and beyond the personal, caught in flight by the circumstances and vicissitudes of a life. Between the person described in the first of these varied prosings and the last offeredbetween the "what" I thought I was and the "who" I may have beenseventy-five years have passed. Whether deserving of another person's attention is not a judgment for this writer to make.
Michel de Montaigne offers no better justification or excuse than to say he was concerned to study himself. His genius was not only fine but bold. What he wrote of himself in his world and what he took from great ancient writers is superlative in its objective, modest egoism and wisdom. As a casual essayist, I expect not the least comparison with that admirable and freest of men. All I can hope for is that whatever my reader may find worth the time passed with this volume offers as much diversion and entertainment as perhaps did my verse, fiction, and drama published during those same past years.
(Ph.D., Litt.D.) has received research grants,
prizes, and writing fellowships since 1952
when he won a Major Hopwood Award
for Poetry (University of Michigan). They
include the NEA Fellowship in Writing, two
Senior Fulbright Awards to Italy and one to
Czechoslovakia. Since 1961, he has been a
Professor of Modern English & American Literature at UCLA, also
teaching poetry, fi ction, and playwrighting. In 1979, Mr. Kessler was a
Rockefeller Fellow and worked at the Bellagio Study Center, completing
his translation (with Amin Banani) of the modern Persian poet Forugh
Farrokhzad: BRIDE OF ACACIAS: THE POETRY OF FORUGH
FARROKHZAD (Caravan Books, Delmar, NY: 1983). He won a
California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction Writing for 1993-1994.
He reviewed fi ction and poetry weekly, theater and events on the air for
KUSC-FM (Los Angeles) for 5 years in the 1980s; several dozen of his
reviews, both broadcast and published in magazines and papers since the
1960s, have been anthologized in CONTEMPORARY LITERARY
CRITICISM (Gale Research) over the decades. His literary essays have
appeared widely.
Among other books, translations of prose and poetry from the
Hungarian, Serbian, and Bulgarian. His latest book is SIREN SONGS
& CLASSICAL ILLUSIONS, also revised and expanded with a Preface
as an eBook [McPherson & Company].
He also served as Arts Commissioner for the City of Santa Monica,
California, from 1990-1996.
- Autor: Jascha Kessler
- 2018, 536 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Xlibris US
- ISBN-10: 1543481612
- ISBN-13: 9781543481617
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.04.2018
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