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Article: A modern Orpheus descends.(ESSAY)(Notebooks)
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- The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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Notebooks
by Tennessee Williams
Margaret Bradham Thornton, editor
Yale University Press. 828 pages, $40.
ON AUGUST 2, 1936, at the age of 25, Thomas Lanier Williams confided to his notebook: "I wish I loved somebody very dearly besides myself--." Thus, early on, Tennessee Williams set the tone of this remarkable, disturbing, often repellent and unsavory record of his life. What strikes a reader here is the extraordinary self-absorption as well as the self-awareness of the remark. There's nothing I can say about the character of Williams that emerges from the 45 years covered in the Notebooks that isn't already admitted by the author ...