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| #87059 in Books | 2008-07-01 | 2008-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.90 x5.50l,.75 | File type: PDF | 288 pages||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| A Book That Has Lasted 75 Years...|By rch|Well, Connolly did it. As he explains in the opening of the book which he wrote in 1938, the goal of every important writer is to make a book that lasts ten years. That we're here talking about his work more than 75 years later means he succeeded (in fact, he knew this, as a updated edition came out in 1948).
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“Very ably introduced by Alex Woloch. . . . One of Connolly’s great gifts was self-deprecation, and one of his easier styles was that of the tongue in the cheek. He puts one in mind of two of the great contemporaries about whom he wrote—
“Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise, an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten years,” tests the boundaries of criticism, journalism, and autobiography with the blistering prose that became Connolly’s trademark. Connolly here confronts the evils of domesticity, pol...
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