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From a Darkened Room: The Inman Diary
Harvard University Press, 1996 Paper: 978-0-674-45443-9 Library of Congress Classification PS3517.N84Z466 1996 Dewey Decimal Classification 818.5203
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Only a few of us seek immortality, and fewer still by writing. But Arthur Inman challenged the odds. He calculated that if he kept a diary and spared no thoughts or actions, was entirely honest and open, and did not care about damage or harm to himself or others, he would succeed in gaining attention beyond the grave that he could not attain in life. See other books on: 1895- | Boston | Poets, American | Relations with women | Working class women See other titles from Harvard University Press |
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From a Darkened Room: The Inman Diary
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Harvard University Press, 1996
Paper: 978-0-674-45443-9
Paper: 978-0-674-45443-9
Only a few of us seek immortality, and fewer still by writing. But Arthur Inman challenged the odds. He calculated that if he kept a diary and spared no thoughts or actions, was entirely honest and open, and did not care about damage or harm to himself or others, he would succeed in gaining attention beyond the grave that he could not attain in life.
The diary became a many-layered and strikingly animated work of a gifted writer, by turns charming, repellent, shocking, cruel, and comical. But the diary is also an uninhibited history of his times, of his eccentricities and fantasies, of his bizarre marriage arrangements and sexual adventures. Inman’s explorations of his own troubled nature made him excessively curious about the secret lives of others. Like some ghostly doctor-priest, he chronicled their outpourings of head and heart as vividly as he did his own. The diary reads like a nonfiction novel as it moves inexorably toward disaster.
This is an abridged version of the celebrated two-volume work published by Harvard as The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession.
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