Ira B. Nadel

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Ira B. Nadel



Average rating: 3.73 · 1,230 ratings · 144 reviews · 52 distinct worksSimilar authors
Various Positions: A Life o...

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3.82 avg rating — 546 ratings — published 1994 — 23 editions
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The Cambridge Companion to ...

3.73 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1999 — 19 editions
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Cathay: Ezra Pound's Orient

3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions
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Leon Uris: Life of a Best S...

3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
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Virginia Woolf

4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions
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Philip Roth: A Counterlife

3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings3 editions
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David Mamet: A Life in the ...

3.33 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions
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Double Act: A Life of Tom S...

3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions
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Leonard Cohen: A Life in Art

3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions
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Ezra Pound: A Literary Life

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“In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever be known completely, nor would we want to know every fact about an individual. Similarly, no life is ever lived according to aesthetic proportions. The "plot" of a biography is superficially based on the birth, life and death of the subject; "character," in the vision of the author. Both are as much creations of the biographer, as they are of a novelist. We content ourselves with "authorized fictions.”
Ira Bruce Nadel, Biography: Fiction, Fact, and Form



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