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Article: James Purdy's allegories of love.(Critical essay)
- Article from:
- Texas Studies in Literature and Language
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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The work of the contemporary American author James Purdy always has evoked strong response. Early on--in the late 1940s and early 1950s--the response from editors and publishers was almost entirely negative, even hostile, as Purdy himself humorously and ruefully relates in this 1984 autobiographical sketch:
In my twenties, I began sending out my completed stories to
magazines ... My stories were always returned with angry, peevish,
indignant rejections from the New York slick magazines, and they
earned, if possible, even more hostile comments from the little
magazines. All editors were insistent that I would never be a
published writer. ("An ...