The new
book by
LIONEL ABEL
is
"brilliant, irritating, informative
and absorbing:'
-DANIEL BELL
The
Intellectual
A Memoir of the Literary
Venture In New York and Paris
A member of that distinctive Hannah Arendt, Jean- Paul Sartre,
group of New York intellectuals and Meyer Schapiro.
who came of age during the thir-
ties and left a lasting stamp on our Whether discussing the leftist pol–
culture, Lionel Abel chronicles a itical debates of the thirties and
half-<:entury offerment in politics, forties, surrealism, existentialism
arts
and the world of ideas. Along in Paris or the birth of off-Broad–
with his spirited analysis of issues way theatre, Lionel Abel captures
and movements, he gives us vivid the high comedy and sometimes
accounts of such talented con- tragedy that arose from the strug–
temporaries as Andre Breton, gle to shape contemporary visions
Harold Rosenberg, Mary McCarthy, of literature, art, and politics.
$17.95, now at all bookstores
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