Coming to grips with Dostoevsky at all means coming to grips with the other half of the burden of art, … More
Tag: Fiction
32. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)
A short phrase binds an entire ream of Tennyson criticism: “the art of the penultimate.” That Tennyson’s art looks forward … More
20. (Marcel Proust)
Still reading, slowly, the second volume of Recherche. I’ve leapt from the Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright to the new James Grieve translation without wincing. … More
5. (D.H. Lawrence)
V.S. Pritchett, introducing his edition of the Oxford Book of Short Stories, admits that he admires D.H. Lawrence most as a … More
4. (Henry James)
A friendly debate this afternoon about late Henry James and consciousness: what late Henry James does to, makes of, or … More
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