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Frank Harris Continues
Asch, Nathan | May 12, 1926 issue

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The article critically appraises the book "My Life," by Frank Harris. Harris's prose is hardly readable, although this is not always his fault. Sometimes he undertakes work for which modern English has no adequate vocabulary. There is no way in English of describing intimate sex life, certainly no way comparable with that of the French. Frank Harris, apparently shocked at his own freedom in the first volume of his memoirs, tries this latter method in the second. The result is pornography. Whereas in the first volume the terms, if absolutely free, are at least frank, in the second they are malicious.

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BOOKS & reading; MY Life (Book); HARRIS, Frank; VOCABULARY; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; PORNOGRAPHY
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