Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

Title: Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir Author: Anatole Broyard ISBN: 9780679781264 Publisher: Vintage Published: 1997 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Near Fine A 1629286 Publisher Description: "Nineteen forty-six was a good time - perhaps the best time - in the twentieth century. The war was over and there was a terrific sense of coming back, of repossessing life. Rents were cheap, restaurants were cheap, and it seemed to me that happiness itself might be cheaply had." Broyard made his first bid for happiness by moving in with a young painter, the difficult and challenging Sheri Donatti - a protegee of Anais Nin - who never wore underpants and who "embodied the new trends in art, sex, and psychosis." Broyard tells their story; by turns comic and poignant, while describing along the way his meetings with Caitlan and Dylan Thomas, Delmore Schwartz, Dw