The Literary Mind: Portraits in Pain and Creativity
by Leo Schneiderman
Category: Literary Criticism

Studies of nine outstanding modern writers: William Faulkner, Lillian Hellman, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor, Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, Jose Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter. The book aims to show that suffering can play a central role in creating great literature.