The Journey Abandoned

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In this newly discovered "third" of a book by one of the most influential literary critics of the postwar period, an elderly poet and novelist turned distinguished mathematical physicist embroils himself in a principled but somewhat absurd conflict, complicating the lives of his admirers. These memorable characters include a beautiful short-story writer, the director of a private foundation and a compromised man of letters, the headmaster of a private school, a wealthy, progressive couple, an au pair from the foundation director's household, and an untried literary man from the Midwest, drawn from Lionel Trilling's own life experiences. "The Journey Abandoned" was supposed to be a novel about the anomalies of heroic action in a conformist age. Instead, it presents an extremely personal portrait of the life of letters in America.