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• W1520297107 abstract "is afraid? Who wants war? -Glenway Wescott, Fear and Trembling In consecutive years at the start of World War II Katherine Anne Porter and the now little-read but then celebrated Glenway Wescott published novellas (1) set in Europe during the gathering of the storm clouds of war. two works, Wescott's Pilgrim Hawk (1940) and Porter's The Leaning Tower (1941), only attracted their authors' mutual praise but were the products of mutual gestation. two writers were friends whose correspondence reveals that both were keenly aware of each other's work-in-progress. Wescott referred to the process through which the two novellas took form, as well as the more general relationship between himself and Porter, as fine rivalry. (2) He might equally well have said friendly rivalry, especially since it spurred both of them to complete works on which they had been stymied for years by their shared bane, writer's block. Throughout the conception, writing, and arrangements for publication of the two works, Wescott's and Porter's relationship had been mutually supportive and encouraging. When they exchanged congratulations upon the results, Porter called Pilgrim Hawk a beautiful thing which she had hoped to review, and Wescott wrote to Porter that the final draft of The Leaning Tower was not only all right but (it seems to me) rather godlike. (3) Yet despite the praise of few devoted critics, neither work has been widely read. My purpose here is only to propose that as products of artistic maturity and modernist precision they deserve to be, but that they can best be read together, as texts in conversation by writers who were themselves quite literally in conversation about their work on the two stories. Further, I want to argue that the two works bear similarities of import as well as of form. Porter's austere novella is clearly story of the coming of war. Wescott's has generally been labeled, in accordance with its subtitle, love story (4)-a term that could by any stretch be applied to The Leaning Yet Pilgrim Hawk is also, if less overtly, story of the threat of German fascism and the approach of war. (5) If The Leaning Tower and especially Pilgrim Hawk have been unduly neglected, the connection between the two has been entirely ignored. That is somewhat surprising, given their closeness in time, their similarity in form, and the fact that the friendship between the two writers has been well documented. Porter's title might, indeed, be read as an oblique reference to Wescott, by way of the name of his autobiographical narrating character, Alwyn Tower. two first became acquainted in early 1932. After decade in and out of Mexico, Porter had been awarded Guggenheim Fellowship and had gone to Germany in September of 1931. Her lover, Eugene Pressly, soon went on to Spain to obtain work, leaving Porter in wintry Berlin in state of bleak depression and loneliness. In January 1932 she moved on to Paris. There she soon met Wescott, mentioning both him and Barbara Harrison (the owner of Harrison of Paris, fine-art press) in letter to Pressly on March 8, 1932. (6) Harrison of Paris, operated under the direction of Wescott's lifelong companion Monroe Wheeler, would publish Porter's French Song Book in 1933 and her semi-fictional Hacienda the following year. In 1933, when Europe began to be obviously rat trap (Journals, p. 78), Wescott, Wheeler, and Harrison returned to the United States, but remained in correspondence with Porter. They saw each other again in 1935, when Wescott, his brother Lloyd, Barbara Harrison Wescott (now Lloyd's wife), Wheeler, and their friend photographer George Platt Lynes were again in Europe for long visit. In letter to Pressly dated August 29, 1935 Porter described the group as angels of light and civilised feeling and behavior. Staying on in Paris until 1936, largely because of Pressly's posting there with the State Department, Porter became increasingly concerned about German militarism as war became ever more threatening. …" @default.
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