Gehring Wes D. Gehring 
Buster Keaton in His Own Time [EPUB ebook] 
What the Responses of 1920s Critics Reveal

Buster Keaton "can impress a weary world with the vitally important fact that life, after all, is a foolishly inconsequential affair, " wrote critic Robert Sherwood in 1918. A century later Keaton, with his darkly comic "theater of the absurd, " speaks to audiences like no other silent comedian. If you thought you knew Keaton–think again!