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Nobody Here But Us Chickens

Nobody Here But Us Chickens

Name: Nobody Here But Us Chickens
ISBN: 9781614720287

Marvin Mudrick, James Raimes

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Nobody Here But Us Chickens is an outrageous and virtuoso display of literary and historical portraiture. Marvin Mudrick, whom the Washington Post called a “literary curmudgeon, randy iconoclast, and delight,” believed that in books, as in life, people matter; further, that it matters in books, as it does in life, whether people are decent or not. Sticking to this plain common sense, Mudrick assembled an eye-opening hall of fame and rogues’ gallery that includes devastating, satirical attacks on Shakespeare, Jesus, and Flaubert, as well as a wide-ranging meditation on heroism. Mudrick devotees will know that he favors Chaucer, Jane Austen, and D. H. Lawrence, all of whom appear here, but we also get to know what he thinks about Coriolanus, Van Gogh, and Solzhenitsyn. Readers unfamiliar with the daring of Mudrick’s opinions and the special texture of his prose will come away from Nobody Here But Us Chickens wishing that critical biography was always this much fun.
“To call Marvin Mudrick a great reviewer is not just to say that he writes great reviews. It is to say also that certain qualities which he exemplifies better than anyone else, qualities which are absolutely essential to a reviewer but not as important in others, obtain in Mudrick’s prose whether or not he is writing a review. A reviewer needs, most of all, good taste and thc ability to say a lot in very few words. T. S. Eliot was not as good a reviewer as Marvin Mudrick.” --Roger Sale, University of Washington

年:

2017

出版社:

Berkshire Publishing Group

语言:

english

页:

336

ISBN 10:

1614720282

ISBN 13:

9781614720287