Volume 17 & 18, Number 12 & 1 · January 27, 1972
The Diary of a Diary
By W.H. Auden
Kathleen and Frank
by Christopher Isherwood
Simon & Schuster, 512 pp., $10.00
In reading Mr. Isherwood's latest book—since in it he always refers to himself as Christopher, I shall henceforth call him by his first name—it may be helpful to recall the three crises through which, according to Erik Erikson, anybody who merits an autobiography must pass: the crisis of Identity, the crisis of Generativity, and the crisis of Integrity. Roughly speaking, these occur in youth, middle age, and old age respectively, but they usually overlap, and the intensity and duration of each varies from individual to individual.
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