"The King Of The Cats" & Other Remarks On Writers & Writing
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few critics of the twentieth century possessed the penetrating wit and elegiac intelligence of F.W. Dupee, and this expanded edition of his celebrated essay collection showcases exactly why he stood among the finest literary minds of his generation. The volume gathers Dupee's incisive portraits of towering literary figures — from Henry James and D.H. Lawrence to James Baldwin and Norman Mailer — weaving together a rich tapestry of critical thought that illuminates the turbulent cultural landscape of modernism and its aftermath. With an introduction by Mary McCarthy, the collection arrives with the imprimatur of one great critic endorsing another, lending the whole enterprise an air of rare intellectual occasion. Dupee's prose style is the collection's greatest asset: elegant without being aloof, erudite without ever becoming pedantic, each essay chronicles not merely the work of its subject but the larger moral and aesthetic stakes of literature itself. His criticism argues for the inseparability of life and art, tracing the human drama behind every great sentence. Whether dissecting Nabokov's cool artifice or Baldwin's impassioned witness, Dupee instructs the reader on what it means to truly read — and the final pages leave one wondering whether such critics, and such writers, will ever walk the earth again.
Author: F.W. Dupee
Format: Paperback
Published: 1984, University of Chicago Press
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few critics of the twentieth century possessed the penetrating wit and elegiac intelligence of F.W. Dupee, and this expanded edition of his celebrated essay collection showcases exactly why he stood among the finest literary minds of his generation. The volume gathers Dupee's incisive portraits of towering literary figures — from Henry James and D.H. Lawrence to James Baldwin and Norman Mailer — weaving together a rich tapestry of critical thought that illuminates the turbulent cultural landscape of modernism and its aftermath. With an introduction by Mary McCarthy, the collection arrives with the imprimatur of one great critic endorsing another, lending the whole enterprise an air of rare intellectual occasion. Dupee's prose style is the collection's greatest asset: elegant without being aloof, erudite without ever becoming pedantic, each essay chronicles not merely the work of its subject but the larger moral and aesthetic stakes of literature itself. His criticism argues for the inseparability of life and art, tracing the human drama behind every great sentence. Whether dissecting Nabokov's cool artifice or Baldwin's impassioned witness, Dupee instructs the reader on what it means to truly read — and the final pages leave one wondering whether such critics, and such writers, will ever walk the earth again.