Hitchens
Hitchens is reviewing Saul Bellow’s novels.
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Erich Fromm once gave a course at the New School on “the struggle against pointlessness,” and one wonders whether Bellow heard of, or took, this class. Pervasive in his work is the sense of the awful trap posed by aimlessness and its cousins, impotence and the death wish.
-- Christopher Hitchens, “Saul Bellow: The Great Assimilator” in Arguably
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Erich Fromm once gave a course at the New School on “the struggle against pointlessness,” and one wonders whether Bellow heard of, or took, this class. Pervasive in his work is the sense of the awful trap posed by aimlessness and its cousins, impotence and the death wish.
-- Christopher Hitchens, “Saul Bellow: The Great Assimilator” in Arguably
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