by Harold Bloom · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781594481383
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In this book, Harold Bloom, one of the most influential literary critics, takes the reader on a journey from the Bible to the twentieth century, exploring how literature can enrich our lives. Through comparisons between the Book of Job and Ecclesiastes, Plato and Homer, Johnson and Goethe, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Montaigne and Bacon, Emerson and Nietzsche, Freud and Proust, Bloom distills the various forms of wisdom that have shaped our thinking. The author also analyzes the Gospel of Thomas and St. Augustine, offering a deep and reflective vision on the search for wisdom through literature.
Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world". After publishing his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than 50 books, including over 40 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm. Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1995.
