{"id":5594,"date":"2017-04-22T15:27:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T15:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/22\/patrick-kurp-on-arthur-krystal\/"},"modified":"2017-04-22T15:27:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T15:27:55","slug":"patrick-kurp-on-arthur-krystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/22\/patrick-kurp-on-arthur-krystal\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Kurp on Arthur Krystal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long-time friend of this weblog, and an accomplished blogger himself, Patrick Kurp of Anecdotal Evidence<\/a> has an article out in the Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em> entitled "Literature with a Capital L": On Arthur Krystal's "This Thing We Call Literature."<\/a> (HT: Dave Lull)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Krystal was a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Jacques Barzun, editing the late polymath\u2019s The Culture We Deserve<\/em>. Like Barzun, Krystal has resisted specialization. His approach to books is not academic: \u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with admiring Elmore Leonard without likening him to Proust or Henry James.\u201d To this he adds: \u201cOne can be a fan of Agatha Christie, but one can\u2019t really be a fan<\/em> of George Eliot.\u201d Tell that<\/em> to the Janeites and Trollopians, and to the devotees of Lee Child and Dean Koontz. Strictly speaking, Krystal isn\u2019t a critic at all, and he certainly has no theories to peddle. We might think of him as an enthusiastic reader who happens to write. He reminds us of the respect once shown to Dr. Johnson\u2019s notion of the common reader, \u201cuncorrupted with literary prejudices.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long-time friend of this weblog, and an accomplished blogger himself, Patrick Kurp of Anecdotal Evidence has an article out in the Los Angeles Review of Books entitled "Literature with a Capital L": On Arthur Krystal's "This Thing We Call Literature." (HT: Dave Lull) Krystal was a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Jacques Barzun, editing the late polymath\u2019s The … Continue reading “Patrick Kurp on Arthur Krystal”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}