V. S. Pritchett and the Life of Art
โ Scribed by Review by: George Core
- Book ID
- 124712869
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 469 KB
- Volume
- 89
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0037-3052
- DOI
- 10.2307/27543811
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
"If, as they say, I am a Man of Letters, I come, like my fellows, at the tail-end of a long and once esteemed tradition in English and American writing. We have no captive audience. We do not teach. We write to be readable and to engage the interest of what Virginia Woolf called 'the common reader.'
A gentle giant', as the Goncourts called him, Turgenev emerged from the barbarous yet doting rules of a terrible mother, whose cruelties to her serfs are at the heart of his hatred of serfdom. He was saturated in femininity and could not write unless he was in love. When he freed himself from his mo