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Time of
Need
Forms of Imagination
in the
Twentieth Century
WILLIAM BARRETT
" Examining Camus, Hemingway, Faulkner, Kafka, Joyce, Hesse,
and even E. M. Forster-as well as Giacometti , Henry Moore,
Picasso, and others in the visual arts-[Barrett] shows them mov–
ing beyond rational meaning, which is not the business of art,
toward myth, mysteries, and perspectives even deeper than those
in de Chirico's paintings. For all the pages that have been written
about them, his interpretations of these artists are startlingly fresh
and provocative."-ANATOLE BROVARD,
New York Times
"William Barrett's
Time of Need,
like his
Irrational Man
over a de–
cade ago, is that rare thing : a useful book. . . . His careful read ings
are a
delight. " -The New Republic
" Time of Need is a beautifully written , carefully thought-out ex–
ploration of one of the main trends in the literature and art of our
time. William Barrett has the rare talent of handling with equal
sophistication and directness literary analysis and metaphysical
concepts. ...
Time of Need
is a quiet, penetrating book which
brings order and light into the contemporary modes of thought,
imagination , and sensibility."-GERMAINE BREE
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