Fame & Folly
Essays
by Cynthia Ozick
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9780679446903,
Hardcover,
Random House Inc,
1996
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9780679767541,
Paperback,
Vintage Books,
1997
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Publisher Notes
Why do so many brilliant writers turn out to be anything but brilliant in their personal conduct? That enigma lies at the heart of FAME AND FOLLY. For in this elegant and marvelously astute volume, one of our great literary intellectuals casts an unwavering gaze on her precursors and colleagues, examining the fatal disparity between literary reputations and literary lives.
Here is T.S. Eliot, sympathizing with fascists and consigning an inconvenient wife to a mental asylum. Here is Henry James, the magisterial psychologist succumbing to what today we can only call a nervous breakdown. From Anthony Trollope to Salman Rushdie, Cynthia Ozick reassesses our literary idols, revealing not feet of clay but flawed and beating hearts, even as she reinforces her own critical position in our cultural firmament.
Media Reviews
'The protean self-portraiture suggested here is at least as interesting as Ozick's critical votes."
First Line
Thomas Stearns Eliot, poet and preeminent modernist, was born one hundred and one years ago.
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