The Art of Literature
Translated by T. Bailey Saunders
3h 9m
37,765 words
en
Schopenhauer believed that of all the arts, literature was the one most easily corrupted by vanity, fashion, and the opinion of fools — and that this made plain talk about it all the more necessary. The Art of Literature gathers his essays on authorship, style, criticism, language, the difference between thinking for oneself and merely reading, and the peculiar curse of being a writer in an age that cannot tell good books from bad. Drawn from Parerga und Paralipomena (1851), these pieces are as bracing for working writers today as they were for the German readers who first dog-eared them. Translated by T. Bailey Saunders.
