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The debate goes on. Bloom attempts to salvage what's left of the literary canon with this tome of tradition. In the fight against political correctness and ideological literary study on campus, the author asserts that "who reads must choose, since there is literally not enough time to read everything, even if one does nothing but read...Do I again go in search of lost time with Marcel Proust, or am I to attempt yet another rereading of Alice Walker's stirring denunciation of all males...?" In addition to essays that examine Dante to Dostoevksy, Dickinson to Dickens, there's a list of Bloom's favorites, including Cervantes, George Eliot, Borges, and Joseph Mitchell.
| Size | | Length: | 578 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.8 in | | Weight: | 35.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"'The Western Canon' is a passionate demonstration of why some writers have triumphantly escaped the oblivion in which time buries almost all human effort."
New York Times Book Review - Norman Fruman
"Here is a book to enrage some, but to gratify many others. Harold Bloom is brilliant, outrageous, headstrong, witty, heterodox, full of charm, immense learning, and tremendous zest."
Anthony Hecht
"To read Bloom's commentaries (as Hazlitt said about the great tragic actor Edmund Kean) is like reading classic authors by flashes of lightning."
M.H. Abrams
"An impressive work...deeply, rightly passionate about the great books of the past."
Washington Post Book World - Michael Dirda
"[This is] a giant, necrophiliac put-on of a book, as hokey as a Soviet military parade."
Chiasson
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