Gary Saul Morson's ideas about life and literature have long
inspired, annoyed, and provoked specialists and general readers.
His work on "prosaics" (his coinage) argues that life's defining
events are not grand but ordinary, and that the world's fundamental
state is mess. Viewing time as a "field of possibilities," he
maintains that contingency and freedom are real. To represent open
time, some masterpieces have developed an alternative to structure
and require a "prosaics of process." Morson's curmudgeonly alter
ego, Alicia Chudo, invents the discipline of "misanthropology,"
which explores human vices from voyeurism to violence. Reflecting
on his legendarily popular courses, Morson argues that what
literature teaches better than anything else is empathy. Himself an
aphorist, Morson offers a witty approach to literature's shortest
genres and to quotation in general.
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