But he believed that Marxist politics were compatible with a commitment to literature — and the belief led, in 1942, to his break, and subsequent feud, with the Party.
But tattoos have gone mainstream, and the result is a paradox of the digital age: Nowadays, nothing demonstrates a commitment to literature better than words inked on skin.
Here was a man grievously split between an absolute commitment to literature and an absolute commitment to denying the literary in him.
"We are fortunate to hire a seasoned editor with such enthusiasm for new technologies as well as a steadfast commitment to literature and exceptional journalism.
Next week, at its annual Spring Revel, The Paris Review will honor the novelist James Salter with its Hadada prize, an award given to a "distinguished member of the literary community who has demonstrated a strong and unique commitment to literature".
By Ian Crouch April 7, 2011 Next week, at its annual Spring Revel, The Paris Review will honor the novelist James Salter with its Hadada prize, an award given to a "distinguished member of the literary community who has demonstrated a strong and unique commitment to literature".
PEN America said on Thursday that the prize's judges would be looking for a writer in the field of nonfiction, poetry, drama or fiction whose body of work "evoke[s] to some measure Nabokov's brilliant versatility and commitment to literature as a search for the deepest truth and the highest pleasure".
(More wine?) In a short and sweet speech, the borough president, Marty Markowitz, celebrated Brooklyn for its commitment to literature ("Even The New Yorker called Brooklyn the most literary borough") and offered up the evening's most quotable line: "Here's to Booklyn, U.S.A".
This was a generation of thinkers and writers, including big names such as Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir and Raymond Aron, who combined deep moral seriousness with commitment to literature, politics and the real world.
As an example, the national standards make little room for the state's strong commitment to literature, Boston.com reports.
A reaction against Lewis and Oxonian medievalism - a commitment to the belief that the classical tradition was the creative key to the greatest age of English literature - became the driving force of Hunter's writing and teaching.
