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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... Powell Society in Kalamazoo , Michigan ) in these United States . It is sometimes said that Powell works on too small a canvas , and depends for his effects on too much coincidence occurring within a too - limited circle . The response ...
... Powell Society in Kalamazoo , Michigan ) in these United States . It is sometimes said that Powell works on too small a canvas , and depends for his effects on too much coincidence occurring within a too - limited circle . The response ...
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... Powell elsewhere excels , are more farce than comedy and often read like a rough draft for Four Weddings and a Funeral . In the preceding novels , the dubious thaumaturges and mystic adepts are , so to speak , kept under restraint ...
... Powell elsewhere excels , are more farce than comedy and often read like a rough draft for Four Weddings and a Funeral . In the preceding novels , the dubious thaumaturges and mystic adepts are , so to speak , kept under restraint ...
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... Powell's ' Way ' ( a review of Journals 1989–1992 by Anthony Powell and Miscellaneous Verdicts : Writings on Writers 1949-1989 by Anthony Powell ) in New York Review of Books , 28 May 1998 Notes 1. Sir Charles Powell , former chief ...
... Powell's ' Way ' ( a review of Journals 1989–1992 by Anthony Powell and Miscellaneous Verdicts : Writings on Writers 1949-1989 by Anthony Powell ) in New York Review of Books , 28 May 1998 Notes 1. Sir Charles Powell , former chief ...
Contents
Oscar Wildes Socialism | 9 |
George Orwell and Raymond Williams | 26 |
Oh Lionel | 44 |
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