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Appearing on The Book Review, Bill Goldstein discussed a monumental era in literary history centered around the pivotal year 1922 and the profound impact of high modernist works. Goldstein examined how various iconic authors shaped the literary landscape during this period. He discussed Virginia Woolf's process of finishing her first modernist novel, Jacob's Room, and how she later crafted Mrs. Dalloway as a novel about a woman seen from the inside after reading James Joyce. Speaking of Joyce, Goldstein highlighted the early 1922 publication of Ulysses and detailed the enormous impact it had on contemporary writers. He also touched upon T.S. Eliot's remarkable year marked by the publication of The Waste Land at the end of 1922, and mentioned E.M. Forster's work on A Passage to India, which had been abandoned before the war. Furthermore, Goldstein explored Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, analyzing the stylistic and thematic effects that both Proust's masterpiece and Joyce's Ulysses exerted on an array of writers at the time. Rounding out his discussion of authors from this creative period, Goldstein noted D.H. Lawrence's heavily autobiographical novel Kangaroo, which was also written during that remarkable timeframe.
Books recommended by Bill Goldstein
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A Passage to India
A Passage to India by E.M.
Discussed“he had abandoned the novel that became a Passage to India before the war”
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In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust is a monumental multi-volume modernist novel that explores memory, time, and human consciousness.
Discussed“so I decided to focus on is the effect that Ulisses and Marcel PR's In Search of Lost Time had on this array of writers”
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Jacob's Room
Discussed“she was about to finish uh a really great novel Jacob's room which was her first kind modernist novel”
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Kangaroo
Discussed“Lawrence also wrote a novel that year called kangaroo which was a very autobiographical novel”
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf's classic novel Mrs.
Discussed“and then in the end called her novel Mrs dooway a novel about a woman scene from the inside”
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The Waste Land and other poems
Discussed“he too had an amazing year because the Wasteland was published at the end of the year”
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Ulysses
Ulysses by James Joyce is a monumental modernist novel that chronicles a single day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, mirroring the structure of Homer's Odyssey.
Discussed“and also James Joyce because was published at the beginning of 1922 in February”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Books About Parenting | The Book Review | 2024-07-18 | 9 |