The Modern World: Ten Great Writers 10 photographs.In this official companion to the acclaimed cable television series, Bradbury examines the lives and works of ten writers commonly recognized as the founders of the modernist movement
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| Title | : | The Modern World: Ten Great Writers |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.64 (168 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 014011484X |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1990-01-01 |
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Editorial : From Publishers Weekly "Make it new" was Ezra Pound's advice to aspiring writers. In this spin-off from a British TV series, novelist-critic Bradbury shows how James Joyce's experimentalism, Kafka's allegories of the spirit, Pirandello's unmasking of personal illusions, Virginia Woolf's lyrical novels and Proust's autobiography of human sensation all provoked shock and surprise with innovative approaches to contemporary experience. Bradbury ( The History Man , Rates of Exchange ) intriguingly views Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain as a historical novel: the record of our tormented age. The other modernists considered here are Conrad, Eliot and two precursorsDostoyevski and Ibsen. Despite its occasional hyperbole and its assumption of the reader's general unfamiliarity with the writers discussed, this skillful meld of biography, history and literary criticism is a coherent, even exciting reappraisal of the modernist movement. Facing the cultural bankruptcy of the secular state and the f
In this official companion to the acclaimed cable television series, Bradbury examines the lives and works of ten writers commonly recognized as the founders of the modernist movement in literature: Dostoevsky, Ibsen, Conrad, Mann, Proust, Joyce, Eliot, Pirandello, Woolf, and Kafka. 10 photographs.
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by Jennifer Melville
for Story Circle Book Reviews
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