What do you think?
Rate this book
Lackguar
Excerpt from Lackguar
In the emotional confusion of the railroad station, with its reluctant farewells and gushing greetings, Carl walked alone and abstracted, and he treated the scene as though it were a feverishly unreal mixture of drama and travesty. He strode with the careful haste of one who seeks.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
In the emotional confusion of the railroad station, with its reluctant farewells and gushing greetings, Carl walked alone and abstracted, and he treated the scene as though it were a feverishly unreal mixture of drama and travesty. He strode with the careful haste of one who seeks.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
232 pages, Paperback
First published January 28, 2010
9 people want to read
About the author
Maxwell Bodenheim
65 books10 followersMaxwell Bodenheim was an American poet and novelist. A literary figure in Chicago, he later went to New York where he became known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians. His writing brought him international notoriety during the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 of 1 review
October 3, 2024
Maxwell Bodenheim (1892-1954) cut a memorable Boho figure in Chicago and New York between the World Wars, but spiraled downward to a Cornell Woolrich finish, murdered along with his wife in a Manhattan flophouse in 1954. All 14 of his novels, of which Blackguard was the first, were published in a burst between 1923 and 1933.
Blackguard is an interesting, not completely successful performance, but I am glad to have read it. It has status as a Chicago novel and a Jewish proletarian novel, but the main thrust is the interior life of a disaffected, talentless young poet, Carl Felman, whose high self-regard and low regard for everything and everyone else does capture a mood of the times (which would repeat 40 years later in the Sixties), even if Carl is not always the most pleasant fellow to spend time with.
Blackguard is an interesting, not completely successful performance, but I am glad to have read it. It has status as a Chicago novel and a Jewish proletarian novel, but the main thrust is the interior life of a disaffected, talentless young poet, Carl Felman, whose high self-regard and low regard for everything and everyone else does capture a mood of the times (which would repeat 40 years later in the Sixties), even if Carl is not always the most pleasant fellow to spend time with.
Displaying 1 of 1 review