The Question of Our Speech; the Lesson of Balzac; Two Lectures
The Question of Our Speech; the Lesson of Balzac; Two Lectures
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^^ Oh, yes, he is as ^ great ' as you like — so let us not talk of him ! " My purpose has been to ** talk *' of him, and I find this form of greeting, therefore, and still more this form of parting, not at all adequate ; failing as I do to point my moral unless I show that a really paying acquaint- ance with a writer can never take place if our recognition remains perfunctory. Our indolence and our ignorance may prefer the empty form ; but the penalty and the humiliation come for us with the pe...rcep- tion that when the consecration really takes place we have been excluded, so to speak, from the fun. I see no better proof that the great interesting art of which Balzac remains the greatest master is practically, round about us, a bankrupt and discredited art (discredited, of course I mean, for any directed and motived attention), than this very fact that we are so ready to beg off from knowing anything about him. Per- 66 Digitized by GoogI( BALZAC functory rites, even, at present, are seldom rendered ; and, amid the flood of verbiage for which the thousand new novels of the season find themselves a pretext in the newspapers, the name of the man who is really the father of us all, as we stand, is scarcely more mentioned than if he were not of the family.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
^^ Oh, yes, he is as ^ great ' as you like — so let us not talk of him ! " My purpose has been to ** talk *' of him, and I find this form of greeting, therefore, and still more this form of parting, not at all adequate ; failing as I do to point my moral unless I show that a really paying acquaint- ance with a writer can never take place if our recognition remains perfunctory. Our indolence and our ignorance may prefer the empty form ; but the penalty and the humiliation come for us with the pe...rcep- tion that when the consecration really takes place we have been excluded, so to speak, from the fun. I see no better proof that the great interesting art of which Balzac remains the greatest master is practically, round about us, a bankrupt and discredited art (discredited, of course I mean, for any directed and motived attention), than this very fact that we are so ready to beg off from knowing anything about him. Per- 66 Digitized by GoogI( BALZAC functory rites, even, at present, are seldom rendered ; and, amid the flood of verbiage for which the thousand new novels of the season find themselves a pretext in the newspapers, the name of the man who is really the father of us all, as we stand, is scarcely more mentioned than if he were not of the family.
What to read after The Question of Our Speech; the Lesson of Balzac; Two Lectures?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by James Henry to read onlineMoreLess
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