Outsiders: A Study in Life and Letters

Mayer, Hans

ISBN 10: 0262131757 / ISBN 13: 9780262131759

Published by Mit Pr, 1982

Very Good condition. Like New dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Seller Inventory # V10B-07681

Synopsis:

The women in Outsiders are Joan of Arc (as presented by Schiller, Shaw, Brecht, and Vishnevskii), Judith and Delilah (as heroine and vamp), George Eliot and George Sand, Lulu, and contemporary feminists. The homosexuals include protagonists of Marlowe's plays, Winckelmann, Platen, Verlaine and Rimbaud, Ludwig of Bavaria, Tchaikovsky, and the personas of Wilde, Gide, and Genet as seen in their lives and in their novels. The Jews range beyond stereotype from Shylock to Disraeli, the Rothschilds, Heine, Proust's Bloch and Joyce's Bloom, and Trotsky.

he English translation of Outsiders includes a new preface by the author and a foreword by Ihab Hassan.

Review: - George Steiner, "Times Literary Supplement" " Mayer means to know exactly how bourgeois society increasingly took away the rights of women, homosexuals, Jews, how these people deprived of rights reacted to the provocation: with camouflage, self-hate, antitype, transmutation, tragic protest." - Peter Demetz, "Der Spiegel" " Hans Mayer is not only a literary critic of omnivorous energy, but an individual with an alert social conscience. He has, over the past several years, been producing essays and articles on those categories of human beings whom established society and classic literature have represented as outcasts, marginal men and subversives. In "Outsiders" he has arrayed these separate writings and reflections in a rather breathless survey ... lively and humane." - George Steiner, "Times Literary Supplement" & quot; Mayer means to know exactly how bourgeois society increasingly took away the rights of women, homosexuals, Jews, how these people deprived of rights reacted to the provocation: with camouflage, self-hate, antitype, transmutation, tragic protest.& quot; - Peter Demetz, Der Spiegel & quot; Hans Mayer is not only a literary critic of omnivorous energy, but an individual with an alert social conscience. He has, over the past several years, been producing essays and articles on those categories of human beings whom established society and classic literature have represented as outcasts, marginal men and subversives. In Outsiders he has arrayed these separate writings and reflections in a rather breathless survey ... lively and humane.& quot; - George Steiner, Times Literary Supplement "Mayer means to know exactly how bourgeois society increasingly took away the rights of women, homosexuals, Jews, how these people deprived of rights reacted to the provocation: with camouflage, self-hate, antitype, transmutation, tragic protest."-- Peter Demetz, "Der Spiegel" "Hans Mayer is not only a literary critic of omnivorous energy, but an individual with an alert social conscience. He has, over the past several years, been producing essays and articles on those categories of human beings whom established society and classic literature have represented as outcasts, marginal men and subversives. In "Outsiders" he has arrayed these separate writings and reflections in a rather breathless survey ... lively and humane."-- George Steiner, "Times Literary Supplement"

Bibliographic Details

Title: Outsiders: A Study in Life and Letters
Publisher: Mit Pr
Publication Date: 1982
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included