Roger Shattuck
Candor and Perversion
Literature, Education, and the Arts"Shattuck is an expert at sorting through the mixed motives that make for art."—Roger Kimball, New York Times Book Review
With Candor and Perversion, Roger Shattuck has written the most complete assessment of the poxes that threaten our Western literary heritage. With incisive analysis, he elucidates the nature of intellectual craftsmanship, defends art's undeniable moral component, and, faced with an academic world shattered by theory, laments how extra-literary politics have grown increasingly dominant, now attempting to eliminate the very category of literature. Whether commenting on Foucault, Pulp Fiction, Georgia O'Keeffe, V. S. Naipaul, or the survival of a core tradition in the humanities, Shattuck presents a stirring synthesis of the principles and values by which we can live together as a nation finally at peace with its diversity. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a TLS Notable Book of 1999.
"Shattuck leaves you roused to think about those things you don't want to think about. And, with gratitude, need to."—Nadine Gordimer, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Roger Shattuck taught for many years at Boston University and now resides in Vermont. He won the National Book Award in 1974 for Marcel Proust.
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