August | Literary Precedents

August Literary Precedents

August's heavy use of psychoanalysis is in keeping with a recent interest in the subject by both novelists and journalists. According to Walter Kendrick in the New York Times Book Review, "August is testimony to this new interest and a valuable contribution to it. I know of no other account, imagined or factual that gives such a vivid picture of the analytic experience, on both sides of its intense, troubled, ambiguous relationship."