Product Description: Esta es la unica coleccion de relatos que Delmore Schwartz publico en vida. El que da titulo al libro es considerado una obra maestra: relata como un hombre va al cine para descubrir que la pelicula que esta viendo muestra la historia de sus padres antes de nacer el, y las consecuencias que acarrea esto, antes de despertar del sueno y comprender que nadie controla su destino / This is the only collection of stories published during Delmore Schwartz's lifetime...read more

Eight stories portray the world of the New York intellectual during the 1930's and 1940's, probing the conflict between ambitious, educated youths and their immigrant parents

Presents Delmore Schwartz's poem illustrated with the artwork of George Condo. Features biographies of both the author and the artist.

Selected letters depict the development of the friendship between Schwartz and Laughlin, a young publisher

Product Description: Five verse plays, at once fiercely original and in the tradition of T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden, by a major American poet of the twentieth century.

Product Description: Book by Schwartz, Delmore

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Drawn from the poet's collected papers at Yale University, these humorous essays touch on topics including taking baths and the meaning of existentialism, the abominations of the telephone, theories of Hamlet's behavior and Don Giovanni's promiscuity, and divorce

Product Description: The arrangement of the essays and reviews is based on their subject matter and to some extent on their length and tone. Parts I and II are devoted respectively to general commentary on the condition of modern poetry and to the examination of a number of modern poets from Rombaud to Roethke...read more

An intimate account of the sudden rise to literary fame and long, inexorable decline of Delmore Schwartz, a complex and deeply troubled man who was keenly aware of his own inner contradictions, as revealed by his correspondence