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1 de mar. de 2001 · Christopher Hitchens synthesizes his daunting knowledge of politics with his love of fine literature and letters in Unacknowledged Legislation, arguably his best collection of essays to date. Hitchens seeks to bridge the gap between art and politics through a critical review of the major English-speaking author's political views in the 20th century.
- Christopher Hitchens
A celebration of Percy Shelley’s assertion that ‘poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world’, these thirty-plus essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie dispel the myth of politics as a stone tied to the neck of literature; Norman Podhoretz’s ‘bloody crossroads’.
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"Hitchens provides rich evidence that his own sallies as a political journalist are nourished by an erudite familiarity with a broad sweep of novelists, essayists and poets.
Many see the meeting between literature and politics as fraught. In this engagement with novels and their authors, Christopher Hitchens takes inspiration from Shelley's description of the poet as an unacknowledged legislator and shows, that while the encounter between writers and those in power is not always smooth, it generally embodies a dialectic that is worth pursuit. …
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Paperback. $32.09 8 Used from $4.07 6 New from $32.09. Unacknowledged Legislation is a celebration of Percy Shelley's assertion that 'poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world'. In over thirty magnificent essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie, and with his trademark wit, rigour and flair, master critic Christopher ...
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