POSSESSED BY MEMORY

n arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous re adings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors-- texts he has had by heart since childhood.Gone are the polemics. Here, inste ad, in a memoir of sorts--an inward journey from childhood to ninety--Bloom argues elegiacally with nobody but Bloom, interested onl y in the influence of the mind upon itself when it absorbs the highest and most enduring imaginative literature. He offers more than eighty ...[Read more]