How men can reject Trump’s crude masculinity and rediscover their richer selves
ENSORCLES. When I interviewed Ralph Fiennes, I felt the same thing, and it turned out that he loved Shakespeare and read Beckett under the stars at 3 o’clock.
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Jennifer remembered that his mother, a novelist named Lash, read his stories before going to bed from Shakespeare. Henry V And Cemetery.
“My mother, ‘I will tell you a story. This young man and his father died, and he is a young prince.’ And he told me in his own words.
Trump reflects a rough, bombed image of masculinity. I can escape Dickens by reading again all the time Our Mutual FriendAnd to fall in love with Eugene Wrayburn, a senior, crusty lawyer, which turns out to have every quality that a man has to have.
I asked my friend Richard Babcock, a former magazine editor and novelist who taught him to write at Northwestern University, about reading a man. New novel A small discomfort on the distant horizonIn 1954, he took part in the shadow of the Nuclear Bomb test in the Nevada Desert. Follows three people with confused. “The book guilty, adultery, murder, you can chase in the mountains, the usual daily things, Bab said Babcock, Babcock said.
“Don’t blame the existing cultural landscape on Ronald Reagan,” he said, “But I think the obsession of money and deeper in the 1980s may encourage the wrong idea because there is little to learn from a novel.
“Similarly, the focus of education into mathematics and science, well -paying jobs, the value of human sciences is disrupted. And we do not feel enough about how to open the landscapes, personalities, ideas, perspectives of events and how the mind can discipline the mind.”
Susan Sontag said that the novels once çıkar could enlarge your sympathies ”and prevented them from“ shrinkage and being narrower ”. This is more important because everyone causes evil small personal devices.
The fiction calls an ax that shakes you from your crusty habits and preferences, and offers you a model to care about what you will not care about. “
As Babcock pointed out, the decline of literary fiction with everyone, traditionally, women left romance and historical fiction preferred by the dominant species. Nevertheless, he said, “Men’s unrelated novels lament is a little insecure ve and“ My friends eagerly read novels, even going back to the classics, for example Anna Karenina And Middle. Some wonderful male writers, thoughtful, dramatic books like Daniel Mason emerge Northern forests And I Shattuck’s Sound date. “
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A few years ago, I wrote how to take my masters from Columbia University in English literature emphasized how we need more humanities while technology was standing out of our humanity.
Works like Frankenstein And Paradise Loss AI, a new species that breaks the world, shed light on the narcissism of strong, male technology geniuses.
After that, a New York, named Paul Bergman, sent me an invitation to the book club E -mail – a judge who knew each other from the US Law Administrative Office of all men, lawyers and Brooklyn.
“For the last 45 years, Bergman wrote to me,” We share our thoughts in the books we read. ” Can I join several sessions Middle?
Dear reader, I did.
Maureen Dowd is a columnist of the New York Times.
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