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Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swinnerton. A veteran novelist, now too little appreciated, probes the rivalry of two men of letters...
Devilish God. As it becomes clear that Peredonov will never make school inspector, it is also evident that Peredonov's meanness is not merely savage comic realism but cosmic symbolism. Author Sologub. as a leader of the highbrow Symbolist and Decadent literary movements of the 18905. insisted that the moralistic realism of earlier Russian decades was dead. Art should be mystical, symbolic, fantastic. But in rejecting realism. Sologub rejected the real world too, believing, like the Manichaeans, that physical things are the creation of a devilish...
...Highbrows. Southern California also has a small group of highbrow astrologers who are trying to relate their ancient "science" to the modern sciences of space physics and psychology. Such is intense young Sidney Omarr, 36, a senior news editor for CBS Radio in Los Angeles, who also writes a seven-day-a-week syndicated column on astrology. "The present trend in astrology is research," he says. "Instead of adhering to the old textbooks, ethical astrologers are studying more psychology...
Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swinnerton. England's foremost man of letters relives a literary feud with a dead rival and decides the man was not so much his enemy as his friend...
Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swinnerton. The fierce rivalry of two old men of letters ends in death for one, a bitter awakening for the other...