Literary Obscenities by Erik M. Bachman

Author:Erik M. Bachman
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780271080055
Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press

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Although his reference to the official suppression of The Bastard in Maine acts almost as an epigrammatic flourish to what is otherwise a self-deprecating account of his literary wanderings around New York City in the late 1920s, the immediate effects of the obscenity charges on Caldwell were in fact a good deal more violent than he lets on in Call It Experience. In addition to drafting a short, vitriolic (and still unpublished) Künstlerroman depicting the struggles of Fritz Mann, a young writer who confronts the hypocrisies of a repressed, but sex-obsessed, Maine community, Caldwell quickly published a one-page broadside, “In Defense of Myself,” in which he justified both The Bastard and his intentions in writing it.16 Denied due process, Caldwell nevertheless sought to get The Bastard a public hearing in Portland and Cumberland County:

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