The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread

Harold Bloom

The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
16 March 2022
Pages
448
ISBN
9781984898432

The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread

Harold Bloom

America’s most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition-from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man-in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.

In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom-who for more than half a century was regarded as America’s most daringly original and controversial literary critic-gives us his only book devoted entirely to the art of the novel. With his hallmark percipience, remarkable scholarship, and extraordinary devotion to sublimity, Bloom offers meditations on forty-eight essential works spanning the Western canon, from Don Quixote to Book of Numbers; from Wuthering Heights to Absalom, Absalom!; from Les Miserables to Blood Meridian; from Vanity Fair to Invisible Man. Here are trenchant appreciations of fiction by, among many others, Austen, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Le Guin, and Sebald.

Whether you have already read these books, plan to, or simply care about the importance and power of fiction, Harold Bloom is your unparalleled guide to understanding literature with new intimacy.

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