Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere"Hitchens provides rich evidence that his own sallies as a political journalist are nourished by an erudite familiarity with a broad sweep of novelists, essayists and poets. In these pages Oscar Wilde's profound radicalism is uncovered; George Orwell's role as a fulcrum between left and right is carefully appraised; the languid irony and cosmopolitanism of Gore Vidal are celebrated; and a discussion of the fatwah issued against Salman Rushdie prompts a meditation on the West's misunderstood encounter with Islam. Along the way, a refined and knowledgeable palate samples offerings from, amongst others, P. G. Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Anthony Powell, Saul Bellow, Alan Bloom, Philip Larkin and Patrick O'Brian, and dethrones the overrated, conspicuous among them such figures as Tom Wolfe and Isaiah Berlin."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... Gatsby we encounter Meyer Wolfsheim , the man with human teeth for cuff links who has , according to sick and fascinated rumour , fixed the 1919 World Series . The narrator , Nick Carraway , is back from the war , and when he first ...
... Gatsby we encounter Meyer Wolfsheim , the man with human teeth for cuff links who has , according to sick and fascinated rumour , fixed the 1919 World Series . The narrator , Nick Carraway , is back from the war , and when he first ...
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... Gatsby is the American Brideshead Revisited . Or perhaps one should say that Brideshead , produced two decades later , is the English Gatsby . In both novels young people are caught in a backwash of postwar blues and anomie , and ...
... Gatsby is the American Brideshead Revisited . Or perhaps one should say that Brideshead , produced two decades later , is the English Gatsby . In both novels young people are caught in a backwash of postwar blues and anomie , and ...
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... Gatsby's blood - streaked pool and ' the holocaust was complete ' , because of the awful straining for effect and also because any definition of a holocaust would have had to take the life of Tom or at least Daisy . And yet , look back ...
... Gatsby's blood - streaked pool and ' the holocaust was complete ' , because of the awful straining for effect and also because any definition of a holocaust would have had to take the life of Tom or at least Daisy . And yet , look back ...
Contents
Oscar Wildes Socialism | 9 |
George Orwell and Raymond Williams | 26 |
Oh Lionel | 44 |
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