num_pages: 265
description: “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938, Enemies of Promise, an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten years,” tests the boundaries of criticism, journalism, and autobiography with the blistering prose that became Connolly’s trademark. Connolly here confronts the evils of domesticity, politics, drink, and advertising as well as novelists such as Joyce, Proust, Hemingway, and Faulkner in essays that remain fresh and penetrating to this day.
language: English
title: Enemies of Promise
titlecomplete: Enemies of Promise
genres: Writing, Biography, Books About Books, Memoir, Nonfiction, Literature, Essays, 20th Century, Criticism, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 201
publisher: Andre Deutsch