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| Preface | ix | |
| On This Book's Arrangement: Genius and Kabbalah | xi | |
| The Lustres | xv | |
| Gnosticism: The Religion of Literature | xvii | |
| Introduction: What is Genius? | 1 | |
| Genius: A Personal Definition | 11 | |
| I. | Keter | 13 |
| Lustre 1 | William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, Michel de Montaigne, John Milton, Leo Tolstoy | 15 |
| Lustre 2 | Lucretius, Vergil, Saint Augustine, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer | 67 |
| II. | Hokmah | 111 |
| Lustre 3 | The Yahwist, Socrates and Plato, Saint Paul, Muhammad | 113 |
| Lustre 4 | Dr. Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann | 155 |
| III. | Binah | 189 |
| Lustre 5 | Friedrich Nietzsche, Soren Kierkegaard, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Samuel Beckett | 191 |
| Lustre 6 | Moliere, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, Oscar Wilde, Luigi Pirandello | 225 |
| IV. | Hesed | 257 |
| Lustre 7 | John Donne, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Jane Austen, Lady Murasaki | 259 |
| Lustre 8 | Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Jane Bronte, Virginia Woolf | 299 |
| V. | Din | 333 |
| Lustre 9 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot | 335 |
| Lustre 10 | William Wordsworth; Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Keats; Giacomo Leopardi; Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 375 |
| VI. | Tiferet | 419 |
| Lustre 11 | Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Walter Pater, Hugo von Hofmannsthal | 421 |
| Lustre 12 | Victor Hugo, Gerard de Nerval, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Valery | 455 |
| VII. | Nezah | 497 |
| Lustre 13 | Homer, Luis Vaz de Camoes, James Joyce, Alejo Carpentier, Octavio Paz | 499 |
| Lustre 14 | Stendhal, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor | 551 |
| VIII. | Hod | 581 |
| Lustre 15 | Walt Whitman, Fernando Pessoa, Hart Crane, Federico Garcia Lorca, Luis Cernuda | 583 |
| Lustre 16 | George Eliot, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Iris Murdoch | 619 |
| IX. | Yesod | 651 |
| Lustre 17 | Gustave Flaubert, Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino | 653 |
| Lustre 18 | William Blake, D. H. Lawrence, Tennessee Williams, Rainer Maria Rilke, Eugenio Montale | 693 |
| X. | Maikhut | 729 |
| Lustre 19 | Honcre de Balzac, Lewis Carroll, Henry James, Robert Browning William Border Years | 731 |
| Lustre 20 | Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Isaac Babel, Paul Celan, Ralph Ellison | 775 |
| Coda: The Future of Genius | 813 |
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Peter Mastrantone
reviewed Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds on January 12, 2016
Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds
Harold A Bloom's book on Genius considers the 100 of people the author views as the smartest people of all time. His list includes religious icons such as Saint Paul and Augustine as well as famous secularist's Proust and Calvino.
I am not going to make this a long review of my favorites. Instead I am going to discuss the one I found most intriguing.
This man was known as The Yahwist. He was believed to have lived between 980 -900 B.C.E. He is credited as have written the book of Genesis, Exodus and Numbers of the Bible. Harold Bloom views the Yahwist written words through atheist eyes. I believe in God so I view Yahwist's words as truth but looking as Mr. Bloom does I find the stories the most creative I have ever come across if, in fact, they are fiction.
An example is where God chooses Moses to lead the Jews from Egypt. Moses said to God "Please, O Lord I have never been a man of words… I am slow of speech and slow of tongue. And God replied, "Who gives man speech? Who makes him dumb or death, seeing or blind? Is it not I, God. Now go as I will be with you as you speak and will instruct you what to say." God then instructs Moses to meet Moses brother Aaron the Levite where God will put words in both their mouths. And hands Moses a rod to perform signs with.
If this story is fiction it is the best fiction ever laid to paper.
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