Maxwell Bodenheim

Ninth Avenue (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Excerpt: "When the light of morning touches the buildings and pavements of a city, it always seems to borrow their hardness and to lose in some degree its quality of flowing detachment. The Sunday morning that fell upon Ninth Avenue, New York City, gave you a sense of invisible stiffness in its very air. The buildings, with their smudged, flat fronts and tops, presented the impression of huge warehouses stretching down both sides of the street-the appearance of holding commodities rather than human beings. Most of them were five or six stories in height, and their curtained, oblong windows and the bright, tawdry shops at their base had an oddly lifeless aspect, in spite of the sounds and animations which occurred within and around them. The iron elevated-railroad structure that extended down the street, with all of its roar and rush of trains, could not destroy the spirit of silent inertia that lurked within the scene."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 177
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783985319626
• Artikelnr.: 63900159

Autorenporträt

Maxwell Bodenheim was a literary figure associated with the bohemian and modernist movements in early 20th-century America. Known for a provocative and unconventional style, Bodenheim explored themes of alienation, sensuality, disillusionment, and the contradictions of urban life. His novels and poems often depicted characters who were marginalized or emotionally conflicted, situated within gritty urban environments like Chicago and New York. Bodenheim's writing captured the restless energy of the jazz age, using fractured narratives, lyrical language, and explorations of taboo subjects to reflect the anxieties and desires of the time. His work combined emotional intensity with social critique, often challenging the literary norms of his era. Many of his stories feature bohemian lifestyles, complex romantic entanglements, and bleak portrayals of human behavior, filtered through a sensibility that was both poetic and cynical. He was part of a generation seeking new artistic expression, and while his notoriety often eclipsed his literary merit, his contributions to American letters reveal a voice shaped by cultural upheaval, personal rebellion, and aesthetic daring. Bodenheim's legacy remains linked to the artistic ferment of the 1920s and to the gritty psychological realism that colored his portrayals of life on society's edges.