Notes to Literature by Theodor W. Adorno
-- Susan Sontag
Notes to Literature
Notes to Literature
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Summary
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.
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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
Table of Contents
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.
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GOR013640230
9780231063333
0231063334
Notes to Literature by Theodor W. Adorno
Used - Good
Paperback
Columbia University Press
19930617
350
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