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Article: The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling.
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- March 25, 1994
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THE BEGINNING OF THE JOURNEY The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling
Diana Trilling
Harcourt, Brace and Company, $24.95,442
In The Beginning of the Journey, Diana Trilling observes that, alone among all those who have written about Lionel Trilling, Louis P. Simpson, an editor of the Southern Review, "has usefully addressed himself to Lionel' s ambitions as a writer of fiction" and his despairing disappointment at having earned his literary place as a critic, not a novelist. Picking up on a envious reference to Ernest Hemingway in Lionel's journal, Simpson perceived that "Trilling did not have, and had never had, the Bohemian option" so ...
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