Politics vs Art

[Mark Kohut]

Not for the first time, do Morris and I disagree about Against the Day. I
think it is far better
than I think he does; and "the politics' is essential to it----but the
'overt' politics are not even close
to what *Kirsch says* the author's political vision is in Against the Day.

And the politics in Against the Day is far less 'overt', I say, than 'the
politics" of GR, which are
positively In- Our-Face (if we look up) yet not a detraction but a raising
up of GR to Art.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 12:25 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> The politics in ATD was often a detraction from the art.  Overt politics
> tends to do that.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Adam Kirsch, an estimable critic in general, is on record dissing Against
>> the Day because of its bad politics---violent anarchism, domestic
>> terrorism, the authors' positions, etc.....as he misread it.
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/books/review/can-a-book-with-bad-politics-be-a-good-book.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks&action=click&contentCollection=books&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront
>>>
>>
>>
>
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