![]() Writing in a spirit by turns unabashedly introspective and soberly journalistic, Shattuck aimed to produce a record not only of his own life but of the life of his times. Army Air Corps in the Pacific Theater during World War II through his last years living in Vermont, and encompasses love a√airs, friendships, travels in the United States, Europe, and Africa, and the composition of his many books. ![]() The journal, written in a miniscule, angular hand by no means easy to decipher, ranges from Shattuck’s early experiences in the U.S. ![]() ![]() In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ģ 9 R ‘ ‘ T H E S W I F T F L O W O F T H I N G S ’ ’ F R O M T H E P A R I S J O U R N A L S, 1 9 4 7 - 1 9 4 8 R O G E R S H A T T U C K Edited and Introduced by Jed Perl When Roger Shattuck died in 2005 at the age of eighty-two, he left behind not only classic studies of modern culture and society, including The Banquet Years and Forbidden Knowledge, but also a journal that he had kept for more than fifty years. ![]()
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