“A Ceremonial”

Title“A Ceremonial”
Year for Search1940
AuthorsGoodman, Paul(1911-72)
Secondary AuthorsLaughlin, James(1914-97)
Secondary TitleNew Directions in Prose and Poetry 1940
Pagination3-18
Date Published1940
PublisherNew Directions
Place PublishedNorfolk, CT
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Post-revolution eutopia which has eliminated capitalism presented through a ceremony at the destruction of some of the last billboards.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in his The Facts of Life (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1945), 45-62; his Adam and His Works: Collected Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 1968); 32-45; and A Ceremonial. Stories 1936-1940. Volume II of the Collected Stories. Ed. Taylor Stoehr (Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1978), 107-21. 

Info Notes

Written in 1937

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Author Note

(1911-72)

Full Text

1940 Goodman, Paul (1911-72). “A Ceremonial.” New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1940. Ed. James Laughlin (Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1940), 3-18. Rpt. in his The Facts of Life (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1945), 45-62; his Adam and His Works: Collected Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 1968); 32-45; and A Ceremonial. Stories 1936-1940. Volume II of the Collected Stories. Ed. Taylor Stoehr (Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1978), 107-21. Written in 1937. PSt US

Post-revolution eutopia which has eliminated capitalism presented through a ceremony at the destruction of some of the last billboards.