In the spirit of Lionel Trilling, Edmund Wilson, and Susan
Sontag, the renowned literary critic Jeffrey Hart writes The Living
Moment, a close reading of literature as it intersects with the
political. Hart's book is an even-handed guide for anyone toddling
into the mists of the modernist moment, effortlessly moving between
such modernist monuments as Eliot's "The Waste Land," Hemingway's A
Farewell to Arms, Mann's Doctor Faustus, and Fitzgerald's The Great
Gatsby. Hart's most stunning achievement is his brilliant inclusion
of Marilynne Robinson's Gilead as a modernist text, for the way the
novel teaches us to see more, to hear more, to feel more. Hart's
dazzling study is an examination of important works of literature
as they explore the experience of living in a broken world with
thought and sometimes with examples of resolve that possess
permanent validity. The Living Moment is for anyone who is wearied
by so much of today's trendy, narrow, and ideologically driven
criticism.
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