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The Going: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and The Dolphin Letters By | Book Review, Criticism In Flight from the Fugitives Among the Barbarians: V. S.
Thomas Mann, from the beginning of his career, took himself very seriously. Although his writing is difficult, he appealed to Germans familiar with their nation’s classics and was by 1929, when awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, a very popular writer. Moreover, emulating Goethe, he was not partisan. Seriousness meant standing above the fray, giving a hearing to both sides, which is one of the sources of Mann’s irony.
AP Photo/John McConnico, File There was a time when V. S. Naipaul, reporting on the growth pains of the postcolonial world, was a favorite of the literary establishment. There was something eye-opening about the essays that began appearing in 1969 in the U.S. in The New York Review of Books, whether the subject was black power in the Caribbean, the terror and the banality in Argentina, ethnic bloodletting in Africa, or the wretchedness of India.
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