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Die zentrale These in diesem Werk von Harold Bloom besagt, dass Dichtung aus der Angst vor dem Einfluss großer Vorbilder entsteht. Diese Angst hemmt zwar die Produktivität, fungiert jedoch gleichzeitig als starke Antriebskraft für das literarische Schaffen. Junge Dichter versuchen, sich aus dem Schatten ihrer Klassiker zu befreien, indem sie deren Werke einer aggressiven "Fehllektüre" unterziehen, um eigene Texte zu entwickeln. Alle Lektüren sind letztlich "Fehllektüren", und die Bedeutung eines Textes entsteht in einem dynamischen Austausch zwischen verschiedenen Werken, was die Literaturgeschichte als ein Schlachtfeld darstellt.

"Wonderful. . . . Spectacular. . . . You feel the pulse of life, what poetry can bring to us if we let it." —The Philadelphia Inquirer "This audacious personal odyssey offers readers a cosmos of possibilities when contemplating what happens once we 'shuffle off this mortal coil.'" —The Christian Science Monitor "An elegiac meditation on a life lived through books." —O, The Oprah Magazine "The great critic revisits the literature that has meant most to him." —The New York Times Book Review Here is the daringly original literary critic's most personal book: a four-part spiritual autobiography in the form of brief, luminous readings of poetry, drama, and prose—much of which he has known by heart since childhood. As one of his own mentors, M. H. Abrams, has said, to read Bloom's commentaries is like "reading classic authors by flashes of lightning." Gone are the polemics; here Bloom argues elegiacally with nobody but himself. In "A Voice she Heard Before the World Was Made," he offers startling meditations on foundational concerns of Biblical study. "In the Elegy Season" finds him coming to terms movingly, from a new vantage, with writers on whom he has brooded for much of his life. And with brio and bravura in "The Imperfect Is Our Paradise," Bloom ranges dazzlingly through twentieth-century American poetry, from Wallace Stevens to Amy Clampitt. Possessed by Memory, in short, is essential 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 Misérables 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.

The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on the sustaining power of poetry

John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Ashberry reaffirms the poetic powers that have made him such an outstanding figure in contemporary literature. This new book continues his astonishing explorations of places where no one has ever been.

Celebrated American literary critic Harold Bloom turns his attention to the writers of his own national literary tradition, from Walt Whitman and Herman Melville to William Faulkner and Hart Crane. The distillation of a lifetime of criticism, it is one of Bloom's most profoundly personal books to date.

Presents a collection of critical essays on the novel that analyze its structure, characters, narrator, and themes.

Südafrika in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Gewalt zwischen Schwarzen und Weißen regiert und zerstört das Land. Der Sohn des schwarzen Pfarrers Stephen Kumalo, Absalom, ist, wie viele junge Männer, nach Johannesburg gegangen – und nicht wiedergekommen. Wer dorthin geht, kommt nie wieder zurück. Dann kommt ein Brief. Stephen Kumalo, der schwarze Pfarrer, macht sich auf den Weg in die große, unbekannte Stadt. Er findet seinen Sohn im Gefängnis. Absalom hat bei einem Einbruch in Panik einen jungen Weißen erschossen. Gerade dieser Mann aber hatte sich sehr für die Rechte der Schwarzen eingesetzt. In einem Land, in dem Schwarze keine Rechte haben und im Elend leben, scheint Absaloms Schicksal besiegelt. Die Versöhnung zwischen den Vätern des Opfers und des Täters, zwischen weiß und schwarz, erscheint als Zeichen der Verheißung für eine bessere Zukunft. Neuausgabe des Welterfolgs, der 1948 erstmals erschienen.

- A complex critical portrait of one of the most influential writers in the world- Bibliographic information that directs readers to additional resources for further study- A useful chronology of the writer's life- An introductory essay by Harold Bloom.

Compared to the works of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, The House on Mango Street is made up of lyrical passages, interconnected vignettes, and meditations and observations that resemble prose poems. This book analyzes the work through critical essays, and features a bibliography, and notes on the contributing writers.