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Tag Archives: George Steiner
struggles on the edge of sanity
American literary criticism, to use Adorno’s term is a great machine, a cultural industry constantly in need of raw material. It is, in fact many machines; press the right button and off the assembly line rolls social consciousness, protest, dissent, … Continue reading
the Fat lady
Finding behind the laughter all kinds of hate, cruelty and perverted fantasies. In a way, the Glasses are an intimate club, as David Leitch once said, a peculiarly intimate club in which Salinger’s readers were overtly invited to associate themselves … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, C.S. Lewis, Carles Dickens, Charles Dickens, David Leitch, George Steiner, Henry Grunwald, J.D. Salinger, Jack Skow, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Paul Levine, seymour krim, William Weigand
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view from the cliff
So long and thanks for all the fish.Even if it is hard to catch the imagery of fish frozen in ice as anything positive and constructive, a kind of purgatory state that is not fully human, but potentially on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, Carl Strauch, George Steiner, Henry Grunwald, Ihab Hassan, J.D. Salinger, Jack Skow, James Bryan, Josephine Jacobsen, Kenneth Slawenski, Paul Levine, Peter Martin, Peter Martin The Landsmen, seymour krim, Slawenski, Warren French, William Weigand
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the ordeal
from The Catcher in The Rye: …In the first place, I’m sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don’t care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. … Continue reading
the huck of it: the enviable goddam silences
Like Huck Finn, to whom Holden Caulfield is constantly compared, the hero of The Catcher in the Rye is usually described as a rebel, either against the materialism and ugliness of “our society” or against the realities of the adult … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, Anatole Grunwald, Carl Strauch, Claire Douglas, Eloise Perry hazard, Ernest Heingway, George Steiner, Henry Grunwald, Huckleberry Finn, Ihab Hassan, J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Jack Skow, James Bryan, John Aldridge, Mark Twain, Maxwell Geismer, Peter Martin The Landsmen, Sumitra Panikar, Warren French
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J.D : still be-Holden
The critics always worked busily to classify J.D. Salinger. He always eluded them. There was always a feeling in many quarters that altogether too much fuss was being made about J.D. Salinger. George Steiner once castigated it as “The Salinger … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, Catcher in the Rye, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, George Steiner, J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mary McCarthy, Max Brod, Maxwell Geismer, Richard Prince, Salinger Franny and Zooey, Seymour Glass J.D. Salinger
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the wandering doomster
A mission laying with being errant. In error and wandering. The nomadic life. Otherness as a catalyst for the creative impulse; a perpetual otherness which lacks any clear sense of home. Of firm footing. The true mission: to be a … Continue reading