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Devices and desires

Posted by Marco on August 21st, 2001

Devices and desires
Tennessee Williams once said that his plays were built on the wreckage of the American family. This is true, of course - the same could be said of Theodore Dreiser’s immensely gloomy novels - and yet the wreckage of Williams’s own family life comes carefully concealed, its frets and fractures covered up with all manner of innocuous lumber.
The Sunday Times



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