{"id":54048,"date":"2022-12-09T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T18:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=54048"},"modified":"2022-12-09T14:08:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:08:40","slug":"alfred-chester-a-double-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2022\/12\/alfred-chester-a-double-reading.html","title":{"rendered":"Alfred Chester, a Double Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Who reads Alfred Chester<\/a> these days? Anyone? His huge, posthumous volume of Moroccan letters, edited with an introduction by Edward Field<\/a>, is worth every page (even the ones I felt like skipping).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s Chester and Paul Bowles on the cover. And this is the novel, The Exquisite Corpse<\/a>,<\/em> which Chester is describing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m giving up on trying any sort of form and will just throw everything in. First person, third person, outside characters, dreams. Maybe it will add up to a book. You see, we never became professional. \u2014VOYAGE TO DESTRUCTION: The Moroccan Letters of Alfred Chester<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n

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