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hannah and her surplus enjoyment
It was always playing around the fringes of the “dark times.” Like carrying matches in a coal mine waiting for the canary to sing. Arendt walked into a Jerusalem courtroom disappointed that the mental case in the glass box was … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Adolph Eichmann, Dwight MacDonald, Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, Heinrich Blucher, Louis Proyect, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Margarethe von Trotta, Martin Heidegger, Martin Wiebel, Mary McCarthy, Michael Hoover, Slavoj Zizek, Varian Fry Emergency Rescue Committee
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“we don’t talk we hold forth”
They evoke a memory here, a recognition there, of the kind of overarticulate, overemotional young people who excitedly theorize about the universe and themselves, who forever question what they are saying and then question the question itself, who sound as … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Alfred Kazin, David Leitch, Don Quixote, Harold Bloom, Henry Grunwald, J.D. Salinger, James Frazer, james frazer the golden bough, Kenneth Slawenski, Mary McCarthy, Maxwell Geismer, Oswald Achenbach, seymour krim, Warren French, William Weigand
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a seymour misunderstood: hints of envy and terror
The ambiguity was strongest about Seymour, who is regarded by the surviving Glasses as something of a Holy Man. But there are hints in Franny and Zooey that coexistence with a saint, living or dead, can have its drawbacks and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, Calvancati Dead of Night, Franz Kafka, Henry Grunwald, Ihab Hassan, J.D. Salinger, J.D. Salinger Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger Seymour: An Introduction, Jack Skow, Janet Malcolm, John Updike, Kenneth Slawenski, Mary McCarthy, Maxwell Geismar, michael redgrave, Paul Levine, Seymour Glass J.D. Salinger, William Weigand
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J.D : still be-Holden
The critics always worked busily to classify J.D. Salinger. He always eluded them. There was always a feeling in many quarters that altogether too much fuss was being made about J.D. Salinger. George Steiner once castigated it as “The Salinger … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, Catcher in the Rye, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, George Steiner, J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mary McCarthy, Max Brod, Maxwell Geismer, Richard Prince, Salinger Franny and Zooey, Seymour Glass J.D. Salinger
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