The world broke in two
Subtitle: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and the year that changed literature
By: Bill Goldstein
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780805094022
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Literature and society; English fiction; Nineteen twenty-two, A.D.; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; History
Description: "The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, and D.H. Lawrence, make over the course of one pivotal year, 1922, the birth year of modernism. As 1922 begins, all four are literally at a loss for words, confronting an uncertain creative future despite success in the past. The literary ground is shifting, as Ulysses is published in February and Proust's In Search of Lost Time begins to be published in England in the autumn. Yet, dismal as their prospects seemed in January, by the end of the year Woolf has started Mrs. Dalloway, Forster has, for the first time in nearly a decade, returned to work on the novel that will become A Passage to India, Lawrence has written Kangaroo, his unjustly neglected and most autobiographical novel, and Eliot has finished--and published to acclaim--'The Waste Land.' As Willa Cather put it, 'The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts,' and what these writers were struggling with that year was in fact the invention of modernism. Based on original research, The World Broke in Two captures both the literary breakthroughs and the intense personal dramas of these beloved writers as they strive for greatness"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-334) and index.