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"A particular significance lies in Hindus's experience: it is a classic instance of what might be called the 'culture sickness' increasingly prevalent among American intellectuals and the intellectualized middle class. . . . This overvaluation, or misunderstanding, of culture is widespread in America today partly because of the failure of radical politics and the intellectuals' consequent sense of social powerlessness. As an intelligent man Hindus could easily have seen the simple truth about Celine, but his supreme attachment to literature would not let him. . . . As long as we fail to acknowledge that a writer who provides us the deepest aesthetic satisfactions can also hold the most regnant opinions and values, we shall muddle both our reading and our lives."
--Irving Howe in Commentary Magazine
"A particular significance lies in Hindus's experience: it is a classic instance of what might be called the 'culture sickness' increasingly prevalent among American intellectuals and the intellectualized middle class. . . . This overvaluation, or misunderstanding, of culture is widespread in America today partly because of the failure of radical politics and the intellectuals' consequent sense of social powerlessness. As an intelligent man Hindus could easily have seen the simple truth about Celine, but his supreme attachment to literature would not let him. . . . As long as we fail to acknowledge that a writer who provides us the deepest aesthetic satisfactions can also hold the most regnant opinions and values, we shall muddle both our reading and our lives."
--Irving Howe in Commentary Magazine
-A particular significance lies in Hindus's experience: it is a classic instance of what might be called the 'culture sickness' increasingly prevalent among American intellectuals and the intellectualized middle class. . . . This overvaluation, or misunderstanding, of culture is widespread in America today partly because of the failure of radical politics and the intellectuals' consequent sense of social powerlessness. As an intelligent man Hindus could easily have seen the simple truth about Celine, but his supreme attachment to literature would not let him. . . . As long as we fail to acknowledge that a writer who provides us the deepest aesthetic satisfactions can also hold the most regnant opinions and values, we shall muddle both our reading and our lives.-
--Irving Howe in Commentary Magazine
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