Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Othe..., Cynthia Ozick
Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Othe..., Cynthia Ozick
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Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays

Author: Cynthia Ozick

Narrator: Donna Postel

Unabridged: 7 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/05/2016

Synopsis

If every outlet for book criticism suddenly disappeared—if all we had were reviews that treated books like any other commodity—could the novel survive? In a gauntlet throwing essay at the start of this brilliant assemblage, Cynthia Ozick stakes the claim that, just as surely as critics require a steady supply of new fiction, novelists need great critics to build a vibrant community on the foundation of literary history. For decades, Ozick herself has been one of our great critics, as these essays so clearly display. She offers models of critical analysis of writers from the mid-twentieth century to today, from Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and Kafka, to William Gass and Martin Amis, all assembled in provocatively named groups: Fanatics, Monsters, Figures, and others. Uncompromising and brimming with insight, these essays are essential reading for anyone facing the future of literature in the digital age.

About Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick is the author of several books and a recipient of the PEN/Nabokov Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for fiction, and a National Book Critics Circle winner for criticism.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lark on January 30, 2019

This essay collection reminded me of Ecclesiastes more than anything else; it rages against Eccleiastes's unassailable truth: ashes to ashes; dust to dust. In the last decade, the last wave of memoirs to ever be published by WWII veterans has been published; written by old men who, aware they are app......more

Goodreads review by W.D. on December 12, 2021

The fourth star was really only in doubt on a couple/few of occasions (specifically when Ms. Ozick insisted upon tarring all of the Beats with pretty much the same brush—as she briefly does with we who choose to review on GR/Amazonia, BTW—and labelling them as mediocrities and poseurs who were, at b......more

Goodreads review by Kasa on June 15, 2016

Cynthia Ozick channels her rage against reviewers, targeting in particular those of us who share our amateur opinions on amazon. Therefore, this "review" may be considered a meta approach to the book. I struggled with some of these essays, but overall found them illuminating. The protean nature of l......more

Goodreads review by Vendedor de rápida on October 20, 2020

Recopilación de ensayos de Oznik. Destaca “Los muchachos en el callejón, lectores que desaparecen y la gemela fantasmal de la novela’ incluido en este volumen y efectivamente parece que está leyendo una novela (con ese título además, como de libro de la editorial Salamandra). Ozick empieza hablando......more

Goodreads review by Deborah on July 19, 2016

I had a mixed response to Cynthia Ozick's latest collection of essays, Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays. One of the things I like best about Ozick as a critic is that she pulls no punches; as she says in "The Boys in the Alley, the Disappearing Readers, and the Novel's Ghostly......more

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