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A celebration of Percy Shelley's assertion that 'poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world', these thirty-five essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie dispel the myth of politics as a stone tied to the neck of literature, Norman Podhoretz's 'bloody crossroads'. Instead Hitchens argues that when all parties in the state were agreed on a matter, it was the individual pens that created the space for a true moral argument.
Author Biography: Christopher Hitchens lives in Washington DC and writes columns for Vanity Fair and The Nation. His previous books include Hostage to History, The Elgin Marbles, For the Sake of Argument, The Missionary Position, No One Left to Lie To, and The Trial of Henry Kissinger, all published by Verso.
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James Lopez
reviewed Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere on February 14, 2008
Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
Hitchen's writing takes center stage here, not so much polemic or political activism.
He's an aesthete, dontcha know, and he digs into some of the canonical writers of his lifetime- Oscar Wilde, Gore Vidal, Anthony Powell, Fitzgerald, Wodehouse, on and on.
What makes this book valuable is his wit and the gracefullness that he brings to the page. He's retained quite a bit of the British way of elegance and understatement, as well as the cutting critical eye and the droll sense of humor.
To read these essays to to be treated to insight after insight and be all the richer for it.
The title and the thematic material is secondary- what's more important here is to get the opportunity to let Hitch be Hitch and benefit from his learning his shrewdness and his wit.
The way he writes situations and sketches characters is second to none. I'm telling you.
Literary skills applied to criticism is more rare than you might think it is.
here it's all for the taking....
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