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PARTISAN REVIEW
W.P.A. Project, members of the New York school, disenchanted
with utopian schemes of all types, relocated the notion of "liberation"
and "revolution" within the surrealist context of psychology and
poetry. A disappointment in Marxist and utopian ideals of libera–
tion would redefine "action" not as a political but as an aesthetic
expression.
Coming in
PARTISAN REVIEW
• Selections from the
Memoires
of Raymond Aron
• Frank Kermode on the man of letters
• Gideon Telpaz: A Conversation with William Styron
• Steven Marcus on George Orwell
• John Elderfield on contemporary art and modern memory
• George Stade: Womanist Fiction and Male Characters
• Mary Lefkowitz on Michel Foucault
• Sergei Dovlatov:
The Performance
• Dennis Wrong on alienation
• Stanislaw Baranczak on Czeslaw Milosz
• Morris Dickstein: From Charles Chaplin to Woody Allen
• Lionel Abel on the idea of the avant-garde
