{"id":11690,"date":"2010-11-27T05:48:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T12:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=11690"},"modified":"2011-08-05T07:33:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T14:33:23","slug":"james-agee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2010\/11\/27\/james-agee\/","title":{"rendered":"James Agee"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Vista of Perfection <\/a>\"Agee\"
\nThe self-dissatisfied life and art of James Agee by Adam Kirsch<\/a><\/p>\n

James Rufus Agee <\/a> (November 27, 1909 \u2013 May 16, 1955) was an American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.<\/p>\n

The African Queen<\/a> (youtube) scripted by J. A.<\/p>\n

Poets of Cambridge<\/a> <\/p>\n

\nReason, Magic, Skill and Love,
\nFrankly, I think poorly of.
\nFlesh and Figment, Brain and Breath.
\nAll are parodies of Death.
\nDeath alone can\u2019t paint it true;
\nOnly Death can say for sure;
\nWho but Death can sing to you?
\nDeath my dearest, sparse and pure.
\nLife is but a sorrowing haze
\nThrough which we grope; and our five senses,
\nTrammeling snares. In all our way
\nArtists put their subtle fences:
\nTelling us that Life is All;
\nCheating us with hints of glory;
\nCharming us. We fail, we fall
\nStupefied, and buy their story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

James Agee the dangerous edge <\/a><\/p>\n

“the marvel of Agee\u2019s description of Orson Welles playing Rochester in Jane Eyre, \u201chis eyes glinting in the Rembrandt gloom, at every chance, like side-orders of jelly.\u201d Such a phrase was \u201cunprecedented and inimitable\u201d .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A Famous Man <\/a>(New Yorker David Denby)<\/p>\n

Let us now praise <\/a><\/p>\n

A Few Good Men<\/a> \"Sagittarius Previous Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Vista of Perfection The self-dissatisfied life and art of James Agee by Adam Kirsch James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 \u2013 May 16, 1955) was an American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, A Death … <\/p>\n

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