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Love, Sex, Death and Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature (2010)

de John Sutherland, Stephen Fender

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Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheaval - the history of literature offers a rich and varied exploration of the human condition across the centuries. In this absorbing companion to literature's rich past, arranged by days of the year, acclaimed critics and friends Stephen Fender and John Sutherland turn up the most inspiring, enlightening, surprising or curious artefacts that literature has to offer. Find out why 16 June 1904 mattered so much to Joyce, which great literary love affair was brought to a tragic end on 11 February 1963 and why Roy Campbell punched Stephen Spender on the nose on 14 April 1949 in this sumptuous voyage through the highs and lows of literature's bejewelled past.… (mais)
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I thought I would really like this book. It combined my love for History and Literature in one little volume, but I was frustrated and deeply saddened to abandon it around the 65% mark. Why? I stumbled upon this paragraph concerning the Pottermania phenomenon:

"Reading (particularly reading a 600-page book) is the epitome of couch-potatoism.(...) Reading is a good thing (...) but would it not be an even better thing for children to be outside-actually "doing" something, rather than passively "reading" or "watching" something?
Well done, sir! Way to spread the love for reading in young minds by telling them not to sit down with a book and, practically, wasting their time on it! I wonder why on earth did you make the effort to write a 600-page book...Perhaps you wanted your readers to appreciate it while playing football...
  AmaliaGavea | Jul 15, 2018 |
LOVE, SEX, DEATH, & WORDS does offer many neat short tales, but overall, the impact is depressing,
notably toward the end of the book where HOPE would be welcomed.

Similarly, the emphasis is more on DEATH than LOVE or SEX and sometimes cheap shots are included.

As well, thinking that killing a beautiful animal, a peacock, for no reason, is funny rather defies either reason
or compassion.

That said, I have folded over many pages to read and share again. ( )
  m.belljackson | Dec 28, 2017 |
This is one of those books consisting of a short article on a literary anniversary for every day of the year; I have been reading each day's entry for about the last four months. It's a great concept, but many of the articles are rather banal and cover dates in the lives of minor writers that have only a tenuous link with any of their works; one would think for any given date that a better example might be found. On a purely subjective note, there have been rather too many minor American authors covered to hold my interest on some dates. I shall keep reading, though. 3/5 ( )
  john257hopper | Sep 20, 2012 |
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Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheaval - the history of literature offers a rich and varied exploration of the human condition across the centuries. In this absorbing companion to literature's rich past, arranged by days of the year, acclaimed critics and friends Stephen Fender and John Sutherland turn up the most inspiring, enlightening, surprising or curious artefacts that literature has to offer. Find out why 16 June 1904 mattered so much to Joyce, which great literary love affair was brought to a tragic end on 11 February 1963 and why Roy Campbell punched Stephen Spender on the nose on 14 April 1949 in this sumptuous voyage through the highs and lows of literature's bejewelled past.

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