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kweekwegg's review against another edition
4.0
Very engsging and insightful -- as one of the blurbs proclaims, one of its strengths is its ability to create the feeling of a story of criticism, which at once initiates and informs the reader as a kind of colleague. Some moments felt critically dated, as though I was reading criticism from the 60s ot something, but I took that as a quality of Ozick's long term perspective.
dmaude's review
4.0
Ozick is wicked smart and fiercely opinionated; two wonderful characteristics for a lit critic. She has good words to say about James Wood, but otherwise misses Edmund Wilson and George Orwell, Bellow/Roth/Malamud, and seriousness in general.
Good stuff on Kafka, and intro's for me to G. H. Adler and William Gass.
In her By the Book interview in The NY Times this summer, she said the last great book she read was "Anti-Judaism, The Western Tradition", which might have been the best book I read this year.
Good stuff on Kafka, and intro's for me to G. H. Adler and William Gass.
In her By the Book interview in The NY Times this summer, she said the last great book she read was "Anti-Judaism, The Western Tradition", which might have been the best book I read this year.
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