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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Continuing Vitality ed. by Ulrich Goebel and Wolodymyr T. Zyla (review)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Continuing Vitality ed. by Ulrich... 76Rocky Mountain Review Lawrence D. Kritzman talks of Barthes' anxiety which emanates from the fear of institutionalization, "a phenomenon that would preempt the possibility of futurity and thus threaten the writer's ongoing libidinal energy" (189). We regret that Professor Harold Bloom cannot bring himself to the appraisal of the French literary scene, whether through diffidence, temerity, or mere petulance. It is possible that he is a closet reader of French authors (and a secret admirer of French painting) and hides this undisclosed propensity for fear of the public shame attendant to this secret habit of imbibing the spirit of the heady wine of France. There are times when I detect the bouquet of French prose in the breath of the more lyric phrasings that enhance the startling clarity of Bloom's antithetic vision. Perhaps in time he will swerve and, admitting his secret vice of reading French, will pleasure our forgiving souls by adding his brilliance to the pleasant community of Boileau, Voltaire, Michelet, Valéry, Barthes, and particularly Claudel, whose lyric mysticism is matched by Bloom's exegetical mysticism. In time Bloom will perhaps listen to the other voices in other rooms which speak in unfamiliar accents and add his http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Rocky Mountain Review Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Continuing Vitality ed. by Ulrich Goebel and Wolodymyr T. Zyla (review)

Rocky Mountain Review , Volume 39 (1) – Jan 6, 1985

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76Rocky Mountain Review Lawrence D. Kritzman talks of Barthes' anxiety which emanates from the fear of institutionalization, "a phenomenon that would preempt the possibility of futurity and thus threaten the writer's ongoing libidinal energy" (189). We regret that Professor Harold Bloom cannot bring himself to the appraisal of the French literary scene, whether through diffidence, temerity, or mere petulance. It is possible that he is a closet reader of French authors (and a secret admirer of French painting) and hides this undisclosed propensity for fear of the public shame attendant to this secret habit of imbibing the spirit of the heady wine of France. There are times when I detect the bouquet of French prose in the breath of the more lyric phrasings that enhance the startling clarity of Bloom's antithetic vision. Perhaps in time he will swerve and, admitting his secret vice of reading French, will pleasure our forgiving souls by adding his brilliance to the pleasant community of Boileau, Voltaire, Michelet, Valéry, Barthes, and particularly Claudel, whose lyric mysticism is matched by Bloom's exegetical mysticism. In time Bloom will perhaps listen to the other voices in other rooms which speak in unfamiliar accents and add his

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Published: Jan 6, 1985

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