โ Trilling, Lionel
๐ Fiction
๐
2012; [200
๐ New York Review of Books
๐ English
โ 216 KB
๐ 1 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
The Middle of the Journey
โ Scribed by Lionel Trilling
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books
- Year
- 2012; [200
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 216 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1590175522
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โฆ Synopsis
Published in 1947, as the cold war was heating up, Lionel Trilling's only novel was a prophetic reckoning with the bitter ideological disputes that were to come to a head in the McCarthy era. The Middle of the Journey revolves around a political turncoat and the anger his action awakens among a group of intellectuals summering in Connecticut. The story, however, is less concerned with the rights and wrongs of left and right than with an absence of integrity at the very heart of the debate. Certainly the hero, John Laskell, staging a slow recovery from the death of his lover and a near-fatal illness of his own, comes to suspect that the conflicts and commitments involved are little more than a distraction from the real responsibilities, and terrors, of the common world.
A detailed, sometimes slyly humorous, picture of the manners and mores of the intelligentsia, as well as a work of surprising tenderness and ultimately tragic import, The Middle of...
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