The least you can do is read it
Ian Hamilton
- Cyril Connolly: A Life by Jeremy Lewis
Cape, 653 pp, £25.00, May 1997, ISBN 0 224 03710 2
Cyril Connolly is famous now, and was famous in his lifetime, for not having written a masterpiece. A peculiar sort of fame: after all, many thousands of literary persons share the same distinction. Connolly, though, made a career out of insisting that his failure had a special poignancy, a poignancy which we should all attend to.
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