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Article: LET US PRAISE A FAMOUS BOOK.(James Agee and Walker Evans' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men)(Brief Article)
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- Creative Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Colin Jacobson re-reads classic work Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Certain books take on a mythical status. One thinks of Joyce's Ulysses, Proust's Remembrance of Things Past and James Agee and Walker Evans' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Such classics often have a rather impenetrable air; it takes a great deal of mental effort to read them, and honest people frequently confess to not having quite got to the end.
Agee was a writer and poet who worked for a living in journalism. Evans was a photographer employed by the celebrated Farm Security Administration. They were commissioned by the prestigious US magazine, Fortune, to look at the daily lives of poor rural ...