Excellent review; i've recently taken to reading a lot of her work and I think you've really captured what makes her work unique well. Wonder if there any modern writers who'll be thought about in a similar vein.
I liked, "And yet cynicism can also be a kind of burnt-out moralism. The cynic stands in lonely judgement of the place and time in which they live, calling out the hypocrisy and superficiality of it all. The cynic is an outsider, an observer, of a world they both fully comprehend and feel alienated from."
Excellent review; i've recently taken to reading a lot of her work and I think you've really captured what makes her work unique well. Wonder if there any modern writers who'll be thought about in a similar vein.
Great essay!
I liked, "And yet cynicism can also be a kind of burnt-out moralism. The cynic stands in lonely judgement of the place and time in which they live, calling out the hypocrisy and superficiality of it all. The cynic is an outsider, an observer, of a world they both fully comprehend and feel alienated from."
Great thought!