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No time wasted on history, character development, etc.; you are right in the middle of it from the very beginning: in life itself rather than in its description. With unrestrained force, James Agee inscribed himself into American literature of the 20th century. Through his uncompromising nature, he repeatedly risked not being published, as was the case with "Brooklyn is" – now a classic of New York literature, which is included in this volume along with various stories, prose sketches, and drafts. Agee aimed for nothing less than an "attack on the general through the individual case" with his literature: a literature without safety nets, oscillating between razor-sharp factual reporting, exposing parody, and classic "short stories," which passionately put themselves at stake and explore new ideas in film sketches and plans for entirely different kinds of books.