Excerpt from The Promised End: Essays and Reviews, 1942-1962 Rereading my work with that hard objective eye, as though it were the work of someone else, I can now see that too much of what I have had to say over the years has been tied to reviews, sometimes of the most trivial books, and that quite a lot of it has been put negatively. A review-essay form that I used frequently now seems to me to have been a very roundabout way of operating. Its first section would publicly execute a dozen worthless books; its second ...
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Excerpt from The Promised End: Essays and Reviews, 1942-1962 Rereading my work with that hard objective eye, as though it were the work of someone else, I can now see that too much of what I have had to say over the years has been tied to reviews, sometimes of the most trivial books, and that quite a lot of it has been put negatively. A review-essay form that I used frequently now seems to me to have been a very roundabout way of operating. Its first section would publicly execute a dozen worthless books; its second section would generalize the sad state of affairs in that area; and its third section would propose my beautiful alternative. I have not included these review-essays, except to reprint the third sec tions in two cases. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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