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Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts by William H. Gass

katj3x's review

5.0

a stylist nearly flawless word by word — at most a little purple on occasion: or is my disembodied self alone in dry-heaving at his food metaphors? —, yet neither mundane like flaubert nor extravagant like (uh) pynchon (?). the lectures and essays toward the end are wonderful; gass has the long-rare and ever-rarer knack for exposing the technical in delightful language as well as repatriating the abstract to familiar matters of sense. how much less miserable i would have been in academia if the average philosopher had an iota of his respect for language!

oh well. good thing i'm done with that for now.