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Author:
Harold Bloom
Publisher:
Knopf
Date:
November 24, 2020
In his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction, literary critic and legendary Yale professor writes trenchantly about fifty-two masterworks spanning the Western tradition.
What The Reviewers Say
Harold Bloom was one of the leading critics of his generation, and there is no question about his erudition. It is on full display in the posthumously published The Bright Book of Life. If only his vast trove of knowledge weren’t so often employed to place writers within a hierarchy. Must virtually every author be compared unfavorably with Shakespeare?.
A true treasure of literature.
This ambitious final book of his career is elegant and insightful; reading it feels like sitting down with a grandfatherly English professor whose knowledge and wit is simultaneously enviable and inspiring, if not occasionally off-putting.
An erudite critic recounts the pleasures of rereading.
