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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... written or ' finished ' in the twelve months before his life was thrown away in a futile action on the Sambre - Meuse canal , and he only published four poems in his lifetime ( aiming for the readers of the old Nation and Athenaeum ...
... written or ' finished ' in the twelve months before his life was thrown away in a futile action on the Sambre - Meuse canal , and he only published four poems in his lifetime ( aiming for the readers of the old Nation and Athenaeum ...
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... written from Poughkeepsie under the byline of Ira Henry Freeman : Gore Vidal , Democratic candidate for ... written his first eight novels , two Broadway successes , and the screenplays for Ben Hur and Suddenly Last Summer . According to ...
... written from Poughkeepsie under the byline of Ira Henry Freeman : Gore Vidal , Democratic candidate for ... written his first eight novels , two Broadway successes , and the screenplays for Ben Hur and Suddenly Last Summer . According to ...
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... written by quite another author in quite another book , and found it disconcertingly similar . Well , I mean to say , that was an entirely different matter . Once again I found myself writing ( and once again , revoltingly , without any ...
... written by quite another author in quite another book , and found it disconcertingly similar . Well , I mean to say , that was an entirely different matter . Once again I found myself writing ( and once again , revoltingly , without any ...
Contents
Oscar Wildes Socialism | 9 |
George Orwell and Raymond Williams | 26 |
Oh Lionel | 44 |
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