Coruscating on Thin Ice
Terry Eagleton: The Divine Spark, 24 January 2008
Creation: Artists, Gods and Origins
by Peter Conrad.
Thames and Hudson, 529 pp., £24.95, September 2007,978 0 500 51356 9 Show More
by Peter Conrad.
Thames and Hudson, 529 pp., £24.95, September 2007,
“... most thickly populated, scatters references to Conrad (Joseph), Hesiod, Rilke, Shakespeare, Plato, Mann, George Eliot, Gide and St John. Quite how much Conrad may be coruscating on thin ice here and there is a question the book can’t help posing, as do the works of his fellow polymath and mandarin critic of modernity, George Steiner. Yet the intellectual ... ”