Canadian Bookman, Vol. 1

Szczegóły produktu Autor: Unknown Author Rok wydania: 2018 Okładka: miękka Język: angielski ISBN: 9780484036726 Opis Excerpt from Canadian Bookman, Vol. 1: With Which Is Incorporated the Canadian Bookseller and Library Journal; April 1, 1915 Another keynote struck by the author in this most entertaining chapter, is his insistence upon liberty. A fixed creed, whether it be a creed of optimism, pessimism, realism, or romanticism, is a positive nuisance to an artist. In this most people will concur. The world is getting away, more and more, from the cramping, enervating influence Of fixed creeds. Joseph Conrad, all of whose novels have the unmistakable air of reality, declares that the novelist should have no programme of any kind and no set rules. In a memorable phrase he cries, 'liberty of the imagination should be the most precious posses sion of a novelist.' Optimism may be an insult to the sufferings of humanity, but, says Mr. Con rad, pessimism is intellectual arrogance. He will have it that while the ultimate meaning Of life if there be one - is hidden from us, at all events this is a spectacular universe. . Stan: Nowe Kod produktu: MK3-31132-MI