Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) is best known as an American modernist and pioneering artist of the early twentieth century. But he was also a prolific writer who published dozens of essays and reviews and several volumes of poetry and prose. The autobiographical account of his life in the manuscript collection of Yale' s Beinecke Library has often been consulted by scholars and curators writing about Hartley. It is the most revealing document he left about his personal life and relationships -- both for its disclosures and omissions -- but has never been published before.Transcribed from Hartley' s own handwritten manuscripts, this edition is accompanied by photographs (some never before published), notes, and an introduction discussing Hartley' s fascination with autobiography in the context of his struggle with notions of self-representation in art. Susan Ryan also describes the circumstances surrounding the composition of Somehow a Past, and explains the distinctions between this original version and two later ones also in the Beinecke Library.Somehow a Past is compelling both as historical document and as personal narrative. Although solitary, self-involved, and saturnine, Hartley nevertheless knew nearly every figure of the international avant-garde in his day and unfolds his life largely through a chain of personal encounters. His traffic with such major literary and artistic figures as Alfred Stieglitz, Vasili Kandinski, Gertrude Stein, Mabel Dodge, Eugene O' Neill, Robert McAlmon, and Charles Demuth is recorded as are his travels both domestic and foreign.Somehow a Past is gossipy, discursive, and self-distanced. Hartley drafted it several times, truncating the description of his traumatic childhood, and leaving out any overt reference to his homosexuality. Yet there are moments of crystal clear self-characterization and leitmotifs that commemorate his troubled youth.
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评分从宏观的角度来看,这本书探讨的主题非常深刻,它不仅仅是一个关于回忆的故事,更像是一次对“存在”与“选择”的严肃拷问。它迫使读者去思考,我们是否真的能够逃离过去的阴影?那些我们做出的每一个决定,最终是如何定义了现在的我们?故事中那种挥之不去的宿命感,并不是让人感到绝望,反而有一种奇特的抚慰作用——它承认了人生的复杂与无常,并鼓励我们在这种不确定性中寻找属于自己的锚点。我喜欢这种敢于触碰人性深处灰色地带的勇气,它让整本书的格局一下子被打开了,不再局限于单一的故事情节,而是上升到了对普遍人生命题的探讨层面。
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