In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories

Delmore Schwartz became the voice of a new generation, when In Dreams Begin Responsibilities was published in the debut issue of 'Partisan Review' in 1937. The title story tells of an unnamed young man who has a dream that he is in an old-fashioned movie theatre in 1909. As he sits down to watch the film, he starts to realize that it is a motion picture documenting his parents' courtship. At turns he becomes engrossed, upset and outraged, in a story that set the stage for the arrival of an acclaimed literary voice. Delmore Schwartz became the voice of a new generation, when In Dreams Begin Responsibilities was published in the debut issue of ''Partisan Review'' in 1937. The title story tells of an unnamed young man who has a dream that he is in an old-fashioned movie theatre in 1909. As he sits down to watch the film, he starts to realize that it is a motion picture documenting his parents'' courtship. At turns he becomes engrossed, upset and outraged, in a story that set the stage for the arrival of an acclaimed literary voice.

• | Author: Delmore Schwartz
• | Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Apr 30, 2003
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780285636699
• | ISBN-10: 0285636693