"'All humans, by their nature, ' said Aristotle, 'desire to know.'
A special and unparalleled way to know is to simply go where you've
never been before. And the key to this quest for knowledge is
'elsewhere.'"
So begins The Elsewhere Community by acclaimed literary critic
Hugh Kenner, author of The Pound Era, and himself a living archive
of modernism in twentieth-century literature. Kenner traces the
quest for elsewhere as it manifests itself in various modes of
"travel," from the eighteenth century English tradition of a Grand
Tour to the continent, to literary meetings-of-the-mind (Milton's
visit to Galileo, T.S. Eliot's to Ezra Pound, Kenner's own visit to
Beckett), to today's planet-wide Internet journeys, free from all
physical limitations. As he chronicles this Elsewhere Community
built of people exploring the unknown, Kenner illuminates how this
passion has infused literature, from Homer and Dante to Dickens and
Joyce. Kenner frames this unique exploration with a witty
rumination on the life of the literary expatriate, fondly recalling
his friendships with Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, Wyndham Lewis,
Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, and other
twentieth-century literary luminaries. Thus a fascinating
intellectual autobiography emerges of Hugh Kenner as critic and
chronicler, a man whose own life and work uniquely position him to
assess the importance of travel in literary life.
Written with the confidence, grace, and verve that have always
characterized Kenner's work, this delightful book is for anyone
seeking to understand the irrepressible human urge to travel and to
know.
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