Picador presents a handsome, robust, big-format softback that will not crease or break its spine through many handlings - but the paper is of poor quality.
There is no need to present the author, so let us just see which essays are in this collection (her first one, originally published in 1966,
says the editor).
First comes the famous "Against Interpretation": "...interpretation amounts to the…mehrPicador presents a handsome, robust, big-format softback that will not crease or break its spine through many handlings - but the paper is of poor quality.
There is no need to present the author, so let us just see which essays are in this collection (her first one, originally published in 1966, says the editor).
First comes the famous "Against Interpretation": "...interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone". An interesting proposition, and well argumented, but I shall continue to read literary criticism.
"On style": "...style and content are indissoluble". In the practice of criticism, though, this is not so evident.
"The literary criticism of George Lukacs" shows the accomplishments and the flaws of this controversial great critic.
"The death of Tragedy" is no funeral, but the presentation of a new dramatic form: the metaplay.
"Going to theater, etc." provides the sheer pleasure of visiting some outstanding theatrical events with a very critical eye.
There is much more: more books, more theatre, some films, psychoanalysis, piety, general culture and the wild sixties.
The afterword "Thirty years later" provides some autocriticism and useful restatements.
