Desmond MacCarthy criticism / angleško

KRITIKA,KNJIGA JE V ANGLEŠKEM JEZIKU .LONDON 1932
LEPO OHRANJENO,TRDE PLATNICE
POGLEJTE ŠE OSTALE MOJE KNJIGE,ČE VZAMETE VSAJ TRI IN PLAČATE NA TRR JE POŠTNINA BREZPLAČNA

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Bibliografski podatki
Naslov Criticism
Essay index reprint series
Avtor Desmond MacCarthy
Izdaja ponatisnjena
Založnik Books for Libraries Press, 1932
ISBN 0836913604, 9780836913606
Dolžina 311 strani

Poor Desmond MacCarthy—so gifted, so charming, so full of promise—never quite came off. To be considered promising when young is at best a mixed blessing. Edith Wharton claimed that, as a young woman of her day, one of her greatest benefits was in never having been considered promising at all: it gave her time to develop in her own way and outside the pressure of expectation. Desmond MacCarthy never lived outside that pressure, and applied a good bit of it on himself. His aim, the assumption others made about him, was that he would one day create some masterpiece of literature—perhaps a richly complex novel or a key work of imperishable criticism—that would both make his mark and redeem his promise. He never did it; never, in fact, even came close.

Desmond MacCarthy stands in what is by now almost a tradition in England of literary flops. Just before him there was J. C. Squire, his predecessor as literary...