Ruin the Sacred Truths by Harold Bloom
Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. In so doing, he uncovers the truth that all our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations.
Bloom’s puissance is not entirely his own; for some of it, he is indebted to Nietzsche, Freud, Schopenhauer, Gershom Scholem, and other mastersBut enough of it is his own to constitute a distinctive form of splendor. -- Denis Donoghue * New York Review of Books *
In some ways the wildest of the wild men (and women), in some ways the most traditional of the traditionalists, Harold Bloom remains serene amid the turbulence—much of it caused by him. He stands dauntless, a party of one, as thrilling to behold up on the high wire as he is (at times) throttling to read on the page… From this strong critic dealing with these strong poets comes a potent mix of insight. -- Mark Feeney * Boston Globe *
The wit, the eclecticism and the gripping paradoxes…the force of [Bloom’s] intellect carries the reader from pinnacle to pinnacle, showing a new spiritual landscape from each. -- Roger Scruton * Washington Times *
In some ways the wildest of the wild men (and women), in some ways the most traditional of the traditionalists, Harold Bloom remains serene amid the turbulence—much of it caused by him. He stands dauntless, a party of one, as thrilling to behold up on the high wire as he is (at times) throttling to read on the page… From this strong critic dealing with these strong poets comes a potent mix of insight. -- Mark Feeney * Boston Globe *
The wit, the eclecticism and the gripping paradoxes…the force of [Bloom’s] intellect carries the reader from pinnacle to pinnacle, showing a new spiritual landscape from each. -- Roger Scruton * Washington Times *
Harold Bloom (1930–2019) was the author of dozens of books of literary criticism, including The Anxiety of Influence, which has been translated into more than forty languages, and the New York Times bestseller How to Read and Why. A two-time finalist for the National Book Award and the recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, he was Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674780286 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674780280 |
| Title | Ruin the Sacred Truths |
| Author | Harold Bloom |
| Series | The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 1991-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 214 |
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