Title: Enemies of promise and other essays
First published: 1960
Description: “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, 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.
Subjects: English literature, History and criticism, English literature, history and criticism, 20th century, English Authors, Biography, Journalists
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PR471 .C65 1960