A Walk On the Wild Side
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A Walk on the Wild Side, the last of Algren’s novels to be published in his lifetime, is in consequence a most moving achievement. It was an act of courage by a man no longer sure of his country, no longer certain of either his own worth or his relevance, convinced only that he had lost the woman who was the great love of his life.
A Walk on the Wild Side is in some ways a desperate attempt by a writer to reassure himself that he can still write, a writer such as F. Scott Fitzgerald describe...d himself as being in The Crack Up – a work at first something of a touchstone for Nelson Algren and later a chronicle of a disintegration foretold – who feels that he has become less through his writing, and worse, that he has nothing left to write. It is, then, a novel written against fate, by a writer who even at the height of his success in 1950 foresaw his own forlorn destiny as inextricably tied to his vocation as writer.
‘Thinking of Melville,’ he wrote, ‘thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost no way of becoming a creative writer in America without being a loser.’ There are no second acts in American literature, Fitzgerald famously remarked, and so it was with Nelson Algren.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A Walk on the Wild Side, the last of Algren’s novels to be published in his lifetime, is in consequence a most moving achievement. It was an act of courage by a man no longer sure of his country, no longer certain of either his own worth or his relevance, convinced only that he had lost the woman who was the great love of his life.
A Walk on the Wild Side is in some ways a desperate attempt by a writer to reassure himself that he can still write, a writer such as F. Scott Fitzgerald describe...d himself as being in The Crack Up – a work at first something of a touchstone for Nelson Algren and later a chronicle of a disintegration foretold – who feels that he has become less through his writing, and worse, that he has nothing left to write. It is, then, a novel written against fate, by a writer who even at the height of his success in 1950 foresaw his own forlorn destiny as inextricably tied to his vocation as writer.
‘Thinking of Melville,’ he wrote, ‘thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost no way of becoming a creative writer in America without being a loser.’ There are no second acts in American literature, Fitzgerald famously remarked, and so it was with Nelson Algren.
What to read after A Walk On the Wild Side?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Nelson Algren to read onlineMoreLess
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