Author : Harold Bloom
Release : 2017-04-04
Genre : Drama
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 139/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Falstaff by : Harold Bloom
Download or read book Falstaff written by Harold Bloom. This book was released on 2017-04-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Harold Bloom writes about Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom. He uses the relationship between Falstaff and Hal to explore the devastation of severed bonds and the heartbreak of betrayal. Just as we encounter one type of Anna Karenina or Jay Gatsby when we are young adults and another when we are middle-aged, Bloom writes about his own shifting understanding of Falstaff over the course of his lifetime. Ultimately we come away with a deeper appreciation of this profoundly complex character, and the book as a whole becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity"--Publisher's description.