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Roger Shattuck was born on 20 August, 1923 in Manhattan, New York, NY, is an American writer (1923–2005). Discover Roger Shattuck's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?
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December 8, 2005 |
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He was the author of several highly regarded works of literary criticism—Proust's Way, The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France - 1885 to World War I, Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography—and served as editor of the restored edition of Helen Keller's memoir The Story of My Life.
Roger Whitney Shattuck (August 20, 1923 in Manhattan, New York – December 8, 2005 in Lincoln, Vermont) was an American writer best known for his books on French literature, art, and music of the twentieth century.
Born in New York City to parents Howard Francis Shattuck, a physician, and Elizabeth (Colt) Shattuck, he studied at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire before entering Yale College.
He left Yale to join the Army Air Corps, serving as a cargo pilot in the Pacific theater during the Second World War.
He spoke little about his experience in the war, but tried writing about it his entire life.
He tried capturing the moment he flew over Nagasaki with his copilot, seeing the aftermath and rubble on the ground.
After the war, he returned to school, graduating from Yale in 1947.
Shattuck then moved to Paris where he worked for UNESCO's film service.
In this capacity he came into contact with luminaries of European culture such as Jean Cocteau, Alice B. Toklas and Georges Braque, and met his future wife Nora White, a dancer with the Ballets Russes.
Returned to New York, Shattuck worked in publishing, and later taught at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, and Boston University, despite his lack of a graduate degree.
In 1975, Shattuck received the National Book Award in category Arts and Letters for Marcel Proust (a split award).
Routinely described as "one of America's leading literary scholars," Shattuck was considered something of a traditionalist.
It was first given as a lecture at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in 1976 (Derrida, Negotiations, 46).
Upon Shattuck's death, the Yale critic Harold Bloom said of his colleague, "He was an old-fashioned, in a good sense, man of letters. He incarnated his love for literature."
He became well known for his 1994 speech "Nineteen Theses on Literature," delivered to the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.
In it he argued (as point XIV), "Everything has been said. But nobody listens. Therefore it has to be said all over again—only better. In order to say it better, we have to know how it was said before."
Jacques Derrida's 'Declarations of Independence', an early turn to address questions in legal and political philosophy, was written at Shattuck's suggestion on the bicentenary.
He retired as a professor emeritus from Boston University in 1997.
Shattuck was among the founding members of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.
He later served as president of the organization.
Shattuck's essays frequently appeared in The New York Review of Books and other publications.