"Adorno's Notes to Literature, which begins with the high leap of his great essay 'The Essay as Form,' sets an inimitable, always exhilarating standard. A volume of Adorno's essays is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature." -- Susan Sontag

-- Susan Sontag
The author, a noted literary critic, presents a selection of his thought on Balzac, Valery, Dickens, Goethe, Heine, Hoelderlin, lyric poetry, realism, the essay and the contemporary novel.
The essay as form; on epic naivete; the position of the narrator in the contemporary novel; on lyric poetry and society; in memory of Eichendorff; Heine the wound; looking back on surrealism; punctuation marks; the artist as deputy; on the final scene of "Faust"; reading Balzac; Valery's deviations; short commentaries on Proust; words from abroad; Ernst Bloch's "Spuren"; extorted reconciliation - on George Lukacs' "Realism in Our Time"; trying to understand "Endgame".
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780231063333
Publisert
1993-06-17
Utgiver
Vendor
Columbia University Press
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
350

Forfatter
Redaktør
Introduksjon ved