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Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds

by Harold Bloom
RM36.79 MYR
Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds - Thryft
Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds - Thryft

Enlightening exploration of the world's greatest creative minds

Recommendation: This book is a treasure trove for anyone fascinated by literary geniuses throughout history. Bloom's expert analysis and passionate writing style bring these remarkable writers to life, allowing readers to gain a deeper appreciation for their works. From the well-known figures to the hidden gems, this book is a journey that will expand your literary horizons and leave you in awe of the incredible minds that have shaped the world of literature.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds

by Harold Bloom
RM36.79 MYR
ISBN: 9780446691291
Authors: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Warner
Date of Publication: 2003-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, Philosophy, History, Creative Nonfiction
Related Topics: Biography, History, Essays
Goodreads rating: 3.91
(rated by 973 readers)

Description

From the Bible to Ralph Ellison, America's most prominent and bestselling literary critic takes an enlightening look at the concept of genius through the ages in a celebration of the greatest creative writers of all time.With The Western Canon, Yale-based critical eminence Bloom tapped into a strain of the cultural zeitgeist looking for authoritative takes on what to read. Bloom here follows up with 6–10 pages each on 100 "geniuses" of literature (all deceased)—pointing to the major works, outlining the major achievements therein, showing us how to recognize them for ourselves. Despite the book's length, Bloom's mostly male geniuses are, as he notes "certainly not 'the top one hundred' in anyone's judgement, my own included. I wanted to write about these." Bloom backs up his choices with such effortless and engaging erudition that their idiosyncrasy and casualness become strengths. While organized under the rubric of the 10 Kabalistic Sefirot, "attributes at once of God and of Adam Kadmon or Divine Man, God's Image," Bloom's chosen figures are associated by his own brilliant (and sometimes jabbingly provocative) forms of attention, from a linkage of Dr. Johnson, Goethe and Freud to one of Dickens, Celan and Ellison (with a few others in between them). A pleasant surprise is the plethora of lesser-known Latin American authors, from Luz Vaz de Camões to José Maria Eça de Queiroz and Alejo Carpentier. Many familiar greats are here, too, as is a definition of genius. "This book is not a work of analysis or of close reading, but of surmise and juxtaposition," Bloom writes, and as such readers will find it appropriately enthusiastic and wild.
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Enlightening exploration of the world's greatest creative minds

Recommendation: This book is a treasure trove for anyone fascinated by literary geniuses throughout history. Bloom's expert analysis and passionate writing style bring these remarkable writers to life, allowing readers to gain a deeper appreciation for their works. From the well-known figures to the hidden gems, this book is a journey that will expand your literary horizons and leave you in awe of the incredible minds that have shaped the world of literature.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.