As more of his previously little known work has been translated into English, readers have discovered a unique writer whose off-kilter sensibility and innovations in form are perfectly suited to our fragmented, distracted, bewildered era.
Sure, compared to the original system it's vastly more complicated, confusing, and borderline incoherent in a way that seems to perfectly exemplify this bewildering new era in which the truth seems to have little meaning.
The bipolarity of the Cold War is gone for good, and even a term like "multi-polar" seems naively tidy for an unprecedented and bewildering global era increasingly driven by nongovernmental organizations, multinational corporations, terrorist networks, insurgent groups, tribal councils, warlords, drug cartels and other non-state actors and organizations.
Once we have swept aside the Britpop stereotypes and the hipster paraphernalia, what is the real legacy of that bewildering micro-era?
Broken promises came in many forms in that era of bewildering bank notes.
In an era of bewildering geographical mobility, economic metamorphosis, and political upheaval, the proliferation of letter writing and the development of a communications infrastructure enabled middle-class Britons and Americans to rise to advantage in the British Atlantic world.
The advent of Twenty20 cricket in 2003 ushered in a new era of astonishing strike rates and bewildering run rates.
The narrative, which starts near New Zealand and circles the globe, is bewildering in its complexity, featuring characters in six eras who might share a soul migrating through time.
Published in 1973, it remains, with the possible exception of Northrop Frye's "Anatomy of Criticism" (to which Bloom's new book pays sly if debunking homage), the postwar era's most original work of criticism, still spellbinding and bewildering.
Modern music is heard in a bewildering profusion of styles, many of them contemporary, others engendered in past eras.
This corner of Europe's "bloodlands" between Russia and Germany saw a bewildering succession of currencies: roubles (tsarist and Soviet), marks (imperial and Nazi) and, among these, a cherished era of Estonian money, from 1919 to 1940.
