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By Arthur Krystal

ISBN-10: 0300092164

ISBN-13: 9780300092165

From small questions of flavor to massive questions about the nature of lifestyles, highbrow debate takes up a lot of our time. during this paintings literary critic Arthur Krystal examines what such a lot commentators forget about: the position of temperament and flavor within the forming of aesthetic and ideological evaluations. In provocative essays approximately examining and writing, in regards to the relation among lifestyles and literature, approximately wisdom and sure bet, approximately God and demise, and approximately his personal sluggish disaffection with the literary scene, Krystal demonstrates that opposing issues of view are dependent extra on innate predilections than on disinterested concept or research. now not beholden to any trendy idea or political schedule, Krystal interrogates the standard suspects within the cultural wars from an self reliant, notwithstanding no longer neutral, vantage element. truly own and unabashedly belletrist, his essays ask very important questions. What makes tradition something and never one other? What evokes aesthetic values? What drives us to make comparisons? and the way does a bias for one type of facts rather than one other give a contribution to the shape and content material of highbrow argument?

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Why did I feel this way? Because De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater has been in my memory bank for twenty-five years, that’s why. Coming across an unfamiliar tidbit, our initial response is often: Well, how important can this person, event, or book be if I haven’t heard of it? The worst o√enders are those who have a passing acquaintance with books, who have read a lot and think they have read a lot. Someone like me, for example. And it is precisely people like me who need to get their faces slapped once in a while with names or facts we have never heard of and whose existence others regard as self-evident.

I went through five, six novels a week or su√ered from withdrawal. Reading at this pace is not unique among the bookish young, but as 20 h. c. witwer and me with any obsession, there is something faintly suspect about it, as if the allure of books is a comment on the pleasures to be found outside books. L ove of reading, or a reading dependency, is a phenomenon often acknowledged by those incapable of stopping. In Reading: An Essay, one of five small books in J. B. Priestley’s Pleasures of Life series, Hugh Walpole divides readers into two general categories: the ecstatic and the critical, allowing of course for the inevitable overlap.

As for the beautiful, classy young woman, a senator’s daughter, even she rooted for the big educated palooka when he stepped between the ropes. Oh, it was Yale the Kid went to, not . —I mean, a heavyweight champion from Harvard? Come on. So memory has been corrected. But there is more than a tinge of melancholy in such emendation. Neither the book nor its youthful reader exists for the other as they did on first meeting. The Leather Pushers is dated, longwinded, not without its dull patches. The same might be said of its middle-aged reader.

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