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van Doren, Mark | May 6, 1925 issue

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This article presents information about the book "Troubadour," by Alfred Kreymborg. It is obvious that Mr. Kreymborg at forty was not old enough to see his life in anything like artistic perspective, for when he is not remembering too much he is creating too little and he never of himself becomes a person who is indispensable to the tale. As a matter of fact, the book is very far from being a failure by and large. If its hero has little to say for himself, he has much to say about the persons he has met and he has met almost everybody. It is a good deal in this book to have written with understanding and so to have avoided the meaningless malice which renders most literary documents of the kind not only ugly but valueless.

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TROUBADOUR (Book); KREYMBORG, Alfred; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; LOVE; WIT & humor; REPUTATION (Sociology)
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