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The Ideal Reader - Proust, Freud, and the Reconstruction of European Culture (Hardcover)
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The Ideal Reader - Proust, Freud, and the Reconstruction of European Culture (Hardcover)
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Jacques Riviere knew how to accept art emotionally. No French
critic was ever less a traditional pedagogue. Rivibre was an
intelligent French writer, who knew that the summit of the
intellect is to admit aff ective knowledge, instinct, and
intuition. The "heart," or taste, is always superior to raw
intelligence. Reviere's supple metaphors are not easily rendered
into English. Th e density of his thought, the complexity of his
views, the moral and spiritual fervor that vibrates in these pages,
further enhances the difficulties the skilled translator must
overcome. Literary criticism is often ephemeral; it has served its
purpose if it stimulates discussion about the work of art under
scrutiny. Not so with essays like these. Th ey demand an active
reading, as do the original works themselves. Th ey do not easily
yield their signifi cance. Among the critics who came into the
French literary scene in the years immediately preceding and
following the First World War, Jacques Riviere has been least
affected by the attrition of time. His studies of Proust and
Rimbaud still rank among the two or three essential works to be
read on these authors. Few other critics have gone further in a
sensuous perception of these authors' work and the intellectual
lucidity in analyzing it. Reviere had few pretensions to profundity
and a great purity of style. In an age of slogans and judgments,
this volume reminds the reader of the extraordinary role of
European critical thought in the twentieth century.
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