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Search - Ivory Apes And Peacocks; Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman, Jules Laforgue, Dostoievsky And Tolstoy, Schoenberg, Wedekind, Moussorgsky, Cezanne, Vermeer, Matisse, ... Poets, Painters, Composers And Dramatists

Ivory Apes And Peacocks Joseph Conrad Walt Whitman Jules Laforgue Dostoievsky And Tolstoy Schoenberg Wedekind Moussorgsky Cezanne Vermeer Matisse Poets Painters Composers And Dramatists
Author: James Huneker

IVORY APES AND PEACOCKS; JOSEPH CONRAD, WALT WHITMAN, JULES LAPORGUE, DOSTOIEVSKY AND TOLSTOY, SCHOENBERG, WEDEKIND, MOUSSORGSKY, C ZANNE, VERB EER, MATISSE, VAN GOGH, GAUGUIN, ITALIAN FUTURISTS, VARIOUS LATTER-DAY POETS, PAINTERS, COMPOSERS AND DRAMATISTS - 1915 - CONTENTS PAGE I I. THE GENIUS OF JOSEPH CONXAD . . . . I IV. DOSTO EVS A K F Y . ... more »T OLSTOY AN , D THE YOUNGER CHOIR O F RUSSIANW RITERS . . . . 52 V. I. ARNOLDS CROENBERG . . . . . . 89 I II. IUS O I F C T O-DAY A ND TO-MORROW . . I04 VI. F m WEDEKIND . . . . . . . . 121 L VIII. RICRARDS TRAUSS A T STUTTGAR . T . . . 153 IX. MAX LIEBERMANN AN D SOXE PHASES OF MODERNG ERMANA RT. . . . . . 173 X. A MUSICAL P RIMITIVE M ODESTEM OUSSORG SKY . . . . . . . . . . . I90 XII. RUBIN M , UNCR, A ND GAUGUINM ASTERS O F HALLUCINATIO . N . . . . . . . 2 22 XIII. Tm CULT OF TEE NUANCE LAFCADIO HEARN . . . . . . . . . . 240 vii CONTENTS PAGE XIV . I . THE M ELANCHO O L F Y M ASTERPIECES . 249 I1 . ITALIAN FU TURISTP AINTER . S . . 2 62 XVI . A S OF YDE M AUPASSANT . . . . 2 88 XVIII . THREE DISAGREEABLGEI RLS . . . . . 3 11 viii IVORY APES AND PEACOCKS THE GENIUS OF JOSEPH CONRAD IN these piping days when fiction plays the handmaid or prophet to various propaganda when the majority of writers are trying to prove something, or acting as venders of some new-fangled social nostrums when the insistent drums of the Great God Rkclame are bruising human tympani, the figure of Joseph Conrad stands solitary among English novelists as the very ideal of a pure and disinterested artist. Amid the clamour of the marketplace a book of his is a sea-shell which pressed to the ear echoes the far-away murmur of the sea always the sea, either as rigid as a mirror under hard, blue skies or shuddering syrnphonically up some exotic beach. Conrad is a painter doubled by a psychologist he is the psychologist of the sea - and that is his chief claim to originality, his Peak of Darien. He knows and records its every pulse-beat. His genius has the rich, salty tang of an Elizabethan adventurer and the spaciousness of those. times. Imagine a Polish sailor who read Flaubert and the English Bible, who bared his head under equatorial few large stars and related his doings in rhythmic, sonorous, coloured prose imagine a man from a landlocked country who midway in his mortal life began writing for the first time and in an alien tongue, and, added to an almost abnormal power of description, possessed the art of laying bare the human soul, not after the meticulous manner of the modern Paul Prys of psychology, but following the larger method of Flaubert, who believed that actions should translate character-imagine these paradoxes and you have partly imagined Joseph Conrad, who has so finely said that imagination, and not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. He has taken the sea-romance of Smollett, Marryat, Melville, Dana, Clark Russell, Stevenson, Becke, Kipling, and for its well-worn situations has substituted not only many novel nuances, but invaded new territory, revealed obscure atavisms and the psychology lurking behind the mask of the savage, the transpositions of dark souls, and shown us a world of kings, demagogues, priests, charlatans, dukes, giraffes, cabinet ministers, bricklayers, apostles, ants, scientists, KaErs, soldiers, sailors, elephants, lawyers, dandies, microbes, and constellations of a universe whose amazing spectacle is a moral end in itself. In his Reminiscences Mr...

ISBN-13: 9781408626733
ISBN-10: 140862673X
Publication Date: 10/29/2007
Pages: 344
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Publisher: James Press
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