With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns,
Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary
studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural
essays, the first since Harvard University Press published "The
World, the Text, and the Critic" in 1983, reconfirms what no one
can doubt--that Said is the most impressive, consequential, and
elegant critic of our time--and offers further evidence of how much
the fully engaged critical mind can contribute to the reservoir of
value, thought, and action essential to our lives and our culture.
As in the title essay, the widely admired "Reflections on
Exile," the fact of his own exile and the fate of the Palestinians
have given both form and the force of intimacy to the questions
Said has pursued. Taken together, these essays--from the famous to
those that will surprise even Said's most assiduous
followers--afford rare insight into the formation of a critic and
the development of an intellectual vocation. Said's topics are many
and diverse, from the movie heroics of Tarzan to the machismo of
Ernest Hemingway to the shades of difference that divide Alexandria
and Cairo. He offers major reconsiderations of writers and artists
such as George Orwell, Giambattista Vico, Georg Lukacs, R. P.
Blackmur, E. M. Cioran, Naguib Mahfouz, Herman Melville, Joseph
Conrad, Walter Lippman, Samuel Huntington, Antonio Gramsci, and
Raymond Williams. Invigorating, edifying, acutely attentive to the
vying pressures of personal and historical experience, his book is
a source of immeasurable intellectual delight.
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