Puzzles and Epiphanies (Routledge Revivals) by Kermode Frank

Author:Kermode, Frank
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317554271
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

There is some avoidable clumsiness in the translation here, but one can still see what Pasternak’s rhetoric is at its best; the concrete ‘firearm freshness’ opposed to the abstract ‘urban fatalism’, and lying between them all the gulf of the difference between a full intuitive response and mere animal mimicry, between the artist and l’homme machine. The passage rings with the familiar claim of the great modern artist to special and authoritative sensibility; Pasternak is always on the side of life, but it is not a generally accessible life. And if we are ever foolish enough to think him unlucky to be in Russia, we should remember that he would certainly find our own society profane and vulgar; he would be the enemy here, or anywhere.

April, 1959.

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