Alfred Kazin
Alfred Kazin
Alfred Kazinwas an American writer and literary critic, many of whose writings depicted the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth5 June 1915
CountryUnited States of America
Alfred Kazin quotes about
society tragedy development
The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.
imagination needs haunting
What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle of existence had become the haunting central figure in contemporary life?