5/13/2023 0 Comments Bloom shakespeare![]() ![]() ![]() Bloom has entered the Indian summer of an eminent career in the role of cultural guru, a Lear raging against the changing orthodoxies of a world now beyond his control. ‘It restores the role of literary critic to one of central importance in our culture’, glows the publisher’s jacket blurb, and, for once, they have a point. ![]() People (like me) were even seen reading it on aeroplanes.Ī best-selling book about the Bard? Not even an accessible biography, at that, but a systematic survey of his dramatic work, via an examination of the supreme intellect and uniquely humane consciousness informing it. When I visited New York last autumn, this academic panorama of Shakespeare was enjoying a lengthy sojourn in the New York Times’ bestseller list its daunting 750-page bulk was to be found on the coffee tables of those Manhattan hostesses deliciously satirised by Tom Wolfe as ‘X-rays’ and its outspoken, authentically Falstaffian author was being lionised in newspaper interviews and profiles. In Harold Bloom’s native United States, his latest tome has proved something of a publishing phenomenon. ![]()
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