CHOICE - R. Remshardt
"[a] rigorous, thrilling, almost Nabokovian performance of memory with its urgent, profuse, paratactical sentences."
—R. Remshardt, CHOICE
As If: An Autobiography
by Herbert Blau
A legendary figure in American theater looks backSee more details below
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A legendary figure in American theater looks back
Editorial Reviews
"[a] rigorous, thrilling, almost Nabokovian performance of memory with its urgent, profuse, paratactical sentences."
—R. Remshardt, CHOICE
From the Publisher
"I read As If from cover to cover, engaged and powerfully moved by a familiar brilliance . . . Blau holds an utterly unique place in twentieth-century American theater, in American culture, and in theater theory and practice."
—-Elin Diamond, Rutgers University
"Masterful . . . a brilliant and touching book written with honesty and humility . . . In addition, it serves as an admirable introduction to Blau's theories, providing a context for his complex and sometimes difficult ideas."
—-John Lutterbie, Stony Brook University
"From his childhood in the 'Jewish heart' of Brooklyn to his memorable production of Endgame in the 1960s, Herbert Blau's autobiography provides not only more of Blau's penetrating insights into dramatists like Beckett and into the complex cross-currents of the American experimental theatre of this turbulent period. It is also a rich, deeply felt and powerfully expressed chronicle of cultural change that goes far beyond specific theatrical productions to offer a valuable personal view of the years that did so much to shape the contemporary world, expressed by one of the theatre community's most original and articulate thinkers."
—-Marvin Carlson, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780472035144
- Publisher:
- University of Michigan Press
- Publication date:
- 10/31/2012
- Pages:
- 302
- Sales rank:
- 490,658
- Product dimensions:
- 5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 3.10(d)
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