A New World Is Not a Home

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John Alexander Coleman

John Alexander Coleman (1935-2003) was a professor in the Spanish & Portuguese and Comparative Literature departments at New York University, where he taught for thirty years. A fervent advocate of the new Latin American literature and an early supporter of Review, he also translated Borges, Heberto Padilla, and Alvaro Mutis. Beyond literary interests (his literary criticism included reviews in The New York Times), his vast appreciation of music in many forms was especially prominent in his later writings.

There is a “different” feeling in the old American classics. It is the shifting over from the old psyche to something new, a displacement. And displacements hurt … it is a cut too. Cutting away the old emotions and consciousness. Don’t ask what is left.—D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature