Volume 37, Number 1 · February 1, 1990
Look At Me
By Gabriele Annan
Memoirs of a Public Baby
by Philip O'Connor, introduction by Stephen Spender
Norton, 229 pp., $18.95
You are walking down a street, probably past a bar. A man shambles up to you, puts his face very close, and begins talking. He talks and talks. He is aggressive and not at all charming. He despises everybody and everything, but especially the bourgeoisie. This includes himself. On the other hand he knows he is almost the only person in the world who understands it. He is telling you the story of his life, which is unusual in its beginnings, but gets more and more ordinary—terribly predictable, in fact—as he goes along.
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