Fame & Folly Essays

by OZICK, CYNTHIA

• ISBN13: 9780679767541
• ISBN10: 0679767541
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-27
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

Why do so many brilliant writers turn out to be anything but brilliant in their personal conduct? From Henry James to Salman Rushdie, from Anthony Tollope to Mark Twain, author Cynthia Ozick looks at our literary idols and reveals not feet of clay, but flawed and beating hearts, and in so doing inspires us to a fresh admiration of their achievements.

Author Biography

Cynthia Ozick, a recipient of a Lannan Award for fiction and a National Book Critics Circle winner for essays, is the author of Trust, The Messiah of Stockholm, The Shawl, and The Puttermesser Papers. She lives in New York.

Table of Contents

Foreword
T. S. Eliot At 101: "The Man Who Suffers and the Mind Which Creates"	p. 3
Alfred Chester's Wig: Images Standing Fast	p. 50
Our Kinsman, Mr. Trollope	p. 92
What Henry James Knew	p. 101
Isaac Babel and the Identity Question	p. 129
George Steiner and the Errata of History	p. 147
Mark Twain's Vienna	p. 151
Saul Bellow's Broadway	p. 171
Rushdie in the Louvre	p. 185
Of Christian Heroism	p. 198
Existing Things	p. 208
The Break	p. 211
Old Hand as Novice	p. 215
Seymour: Homage to a Bibliophile	p. 220
Helping T. S. Eliot Write Better (Notes Toward A Definitive Bibliography)	p. 226
Against Modernity: Annals of the Temple, 1918-1927	p. 236
"It Takes a Great Deal of History to Produce a Little Literature"	p. 280
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