... Maugham Moment. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
" ...here's Maugham doing some pitiless psychologizing without violating traditional storytelling. This is fun, by the way, at least for those who enjoy tweaking the usual modernist account of literature, because Maugham was anything but a modernist. "
But Maugham's sensibility was distinctly modern, whereas the sensibility of many modernists was not.
Modernist worshippers seem to have a tendency to imagine everyone but them unrefined barbarians- this being the only possible reason for reservations regarding Joyce & the gang, and literature prior to modernism a kind of simplistic warm-up.
ReplyDeleteJust the other morning, I was watching a film adaptation of "Razor's Edge" (the 1946 film, with Tyrone Power) .....
ReplyDeleteSomerset Maugham is calling me .... I need to head back to the bookstore and discover/rediscover him!