Ruin the Sacred Truths, Harold Bloom
Ruin the Sacred Truths, Harold Bloom
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Ruin the Sacred Truths
Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present

Author: Harold Bloom

Narrator: Mort Crim

Unabridged: 7 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/07/2010

Synopsis

Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or "J") writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Illiad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the Henry IV plays, Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's Prelude, and works by Freud, Kafka, and Beckett. In so doing, he uncovers the truth that all our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations. This is criticism at its best. This book is published by Harvard University Press.

About Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He has written more than sixty books, including Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air, Falstaff: Give Me Life, The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and How to Read and Why. He is a MacArthur Prize fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards, including the Academy's Gold Medal for Criticism. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cymru on May 30, 2016

Ruin the Sacred Truths sits equidistant between Bloom’s trademark theory The Anxiety of Influence and his self-described more exoteric works beginning with The Western Canon. While Ruin is firmly entrenched in the esoteric (which I’ll briefly summarize as a level of criticism so far beyond – or bene......more

Goodreads review by Kent on February 11, 2013

I had a friend tell me to be leery of people like Harold Bloom -- so intelligent, such a broad ranging intellect and holding a comprehensive vision of the world, that their ideas and philosophies are intoxicating and easily subsumed even when they are incorrect. With that caveat, Bloom's criticism is......more

Goodreads review by Adelina on December 14, 2019

Uma leitura verdadeiramente interessante que põe em perspetiva obras universais. Leitura algo densa mas que não deixa de surpreender e atrair.......more

Goodreads review by Charles on February 20, 2021

This is a hit-and-miss book. On the hit spectrum is the author and his style, absolutely genius. There's also a lot to be gained from the content within the book, however this is where the hits and the misses begin to merge (or blur).......more

Goodreads review by Tom on August 04, 2013

Harold Bloom being Harold Bloom. Enjoy it for what it is.......more

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