I tended not to put a lot of energy into promoting or even thinking about my book The Twilight of the Avant-Garde. I spent a lot of time working on it, and a lot of mental energy against the "poetry of experience." Now, re-reading all of this, instead of regretting it, I think I am still right! If anything, LGM is worse than I thought, in every dimension. Even one of his closest collaborators from the early years came out with a diatribe against him.
I think this was actually how I discovered your work. Not that I read the book really, but I noticed it, got hold of it somehow, and said aha, here's someone more interesting than most other professors.
ReplyDeleteI thought people had only read the Lorca book published the same year.
ReplyDeleteNo, twilight of the avant-garde is an eye-catching title
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