BIB_ID
381755
Accession number
MA 5659.25
Creator
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.
Display Date
1945 Aug. 5.
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.8 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters to José Rodríguez Feo, a Cuban who edited the magazine Orígenes in the 1940s and 50s. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 5659 for more information.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Defending [Gustave] Flaubert and discussing his Madame Bovary at length; noting that she "admire[s] Stendhal perhaps extravagantly" and "owe[s] a debt to Flaubert" as she "would be much poorer without him"; discussing Julien Sorel, the protagonist of Stendhal's The Red and the Black; recommending a book called Portrait of Zélide, by Geoffrey Scott; adding, "the only thing of Djuna Barnes' I think worth reading is Nightwood, but well worth reading"; mentioning "[F.O.] Matthiessen's book on [Henry] James" and "'Angel in the Forest,' by a poet, Marguerite Young"; remarking that her "novel goes slowly"; complaining about Hollywood: "I came to Hollywood for three months with Metro-Goldwyn Mayer; couldn't get out fast enough, can't stay far enough away for time to come. I had refused three good offers to come here before. This time I could not refuse two thousand dollars a week. But not for four times that sum would I have stayed on a day more than three months."
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