Alter | 70 Jahre (verstorben) |
Beruf | Literaturkritiker, Romancier, Schriftsteller |
Geburtsdatum | Dienstag, 04. Juli 1905 |
Geburtsort | Queens, New York, United States |
Todesdatum | Mittwoch, 05. November 1975 |
Todesort | New York City |
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Beschreibung | Lionel Trilling war ein amerikanischer Literaturkritiker, Schriftsteller und Lehrer. Er gehörte zur Gruppe der New York Intellectuals und schrieb regelmäßig für die Partisan Review. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten amerikanischen Literaturkritiker seiner Zeit. |
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
