Except When I Write

Author: Arthur Krystal
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B0054WBMIS

Except When I Write:Reflections of a Recovering Critic

"I never think except when I sit down to write. Get Except When I Write literature books for free.

-- Attributed to Montaigne by Edgar Allan Poe
From Montaigne in the sixteenth century to Orwell, Eliot, and Trilling in the twentieth, the best literary essayists combine a gift for observation with an abiding commitment to books. Although it may seem that books are becoming less essential and that a revolution in sensibility is taking place, the essays of Arthur Krystal suggest otherwise. Companionable without being chummy, engaged without being didactic, erudite without being stuffy, he demonstrates that literature, even in the digital age, remains the truest expression of the human condition.
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