9780679767541
Fame & Folly: Essays
Cynthia Ozick
ISBN 13: 9780679767541
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Softcover
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Why do so many brilliant writers turn out to be anything but brilliant in their personal conduct? That enigma lies at the heart of FAME AND FOLLY. For in this elegant and marvelously astute volume, one of our great literary intellectuals casts an unwavering gaze on her precursors and colleagues, examining the fatal disparity between literary reputations and literary lives.
Here is T.S. Eliot, sympathizing with fascists and consigning an inconvenient wife to a mental asylum. Here is Henry James, the magisterial psychologist succumbing to what today we can only call a nervous breakdown. From Anthony Trollope to Salman Rushdie, Cynthia Ozick reassesses our literary idols, revealing not feet of clay but flawed and beating hearts, even as she reinforces her own critical position in our cultural firmament.
Review:
'The protean self-portraiture suggested here is at least as interesting as Ozick's critical votes."
Kirkus, 03/01/1996
Review:"This collection of 17 exertions (or exhilarations) is nothing if not formal, nothing if not deeply, intrinsically argumentative. We're treated to a writer talking mostly about other writers--among them T. S. Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Henry James, Issac Babel, Saul Bellow--and as we listen, we concede that nothing entertains like sheer urgency."
Dan Hofstadter, Wall Street Journal, 05/22/1996
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