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# Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds Paperback – January 1, 2003

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## Customer Reviews

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    The greatest pleasures are the most difficult ones
  

*by F***L on Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2014*

I stumbled upon this book as a casual reader and as such, even though I was familiar by name with most of the authors here, I had never read a most of the older authors (Milton, Dante, Goethe, etc), thinking their books were too "old" and therefore unrelatable. What a huge mistake!"Genius" is the culmination of Bloom's more than 60 years of attentive reading and has a theme that demands of the author an erudition that very few people have had throughout history, let alone now when vapid distraction is so readily available. Only someone that has read and re-read the Western Cannon many times over and over could make some of the brilliant connections that Bloom makes in "Genius". It does definitely help that Bloom was a freakishly-fast reader, during his prime he could go through an impressive 1000 pages in one hour!While not being a fast as Bloom, I still went through this 800 pages book faster than I had ever read anything else before. Harold Blooms makes his case for the genius of each of the individuals in "Genius" in such a compelling and seductive way that one couldn't wait to finish reading it and getting their hands on the masterpieces he recommends.Bloom's arguments are clear and logical. Even if you don't agree with him, you will always know where he stands. One of my biggest beefs with literary critics is how a few of them, lacking the cojones to say something that might be deemed controversial, try to obfuscate their arguments and run laps around the reader to confuse her. You don't need to worry about that with Bloom.Harold's views of genius are tied to different concepts:-The idea of originality, a creative and unexplained spark shared by many authors in the book, and that can't be easily explained/dismissed by social factors.- How the genius of the author affects its work, and most importantly, the reverse, how the work influences the life of the genius.- The struggle to surpass, transcend and continue the work of previous genius (and in some cases genius yet to come). Something that has been thoroughly covered by Bloom on his previous books, what he calls the Anxiety of Influence, and which is Bloom's greatest contribution to literary studies.So, stop wasting your precious time on earth reading sub-literature like Harry Potter, Stephen King and David Foster Wallace. Read "Genius" and the 100 authors mentioned here. Start augmenting your consciousness, getting to know yourself and others better while at the same time getting a taste of the Sublime.

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    Excellent
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2023*

Excellent

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    A Monument To Literature
  

*by F***2 on Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2012*

I tend to measure books by the amount of my underlining, and there's a lot of that here.  Unending. The all time champion reader and likely best writer of our time synthesizes for us the subject of the top 100 literary geniuses.  Has anybody read all 100?  Bloom has apparently read most written by all of them, and much of it more than once or repeatedly.  I find the memory of the man for what he has read to be incredible and then superseded by the highly intelligent analysis and perspective.  Bloom makes it fit together like a puzzle:"Paul Valery, the disciple of the poet Stephane Mallarme, was the most intelligent and accomplished person of letters in twentieth-century France.  That may understate Valery's centrality in modern poetry, whereas his presence helps place for us such eminent admirers of his work as Rilke,(T.S.) Eliot,(Wallace) Stevens."A lot of info packed into that sentence, which is but a small small sample of what this contains.For those giving this less than five stars, to be sure one does grow weary after a while with Mr. Bloom's fetish for gnosticism, "over hearing" gets a bit repetitive.  And,the never ending battle against the "school of resentment". Give Bloom a little rope since these references are buried in a treasure of literary insight and specially selected excerpts from 100 great authors.  A coffee table book deserving a place of prominence in our libraries and our consciousness.

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