Yet his self-defense, to the exclusion of other human values, be they moral, literary or intellectual, has come at a cost.
Some, like the composer Ned Rorem and Bowles's editor, Daniel Halpern, had long relationships with the author; others, like the writers Joyce Carol Oates and Russell Banks, had long admired his darkly moral literary legacy.
"His gentleness, justice, and detachment were not so much moral or literary choices as his own psychological imperatives," she writes.
The society attached far more importance to the moral and literary aspects of art than to aesthetics.
You also say, in discussing the tech companies' power: "What moral or literary sensibilities do the executives at Amazon have?
His obvious role model is George Orwell, who recurs often in this volume as subject, moral touchstone, literary kibitzer, footnote and foil.
Far more influential, however, were the Lettres (short dissertations on political, moral, and literary matters), which appeared in numerous editions and were continually expanded from 1624.
May 6, 1754 Montignac, France May 3, 1824 Paris, France Joseph Joubert, (born May 6, 1754, Montignac, France died May 3, 1824, Paris) French man of letters who wrote on philosophical, moral, and literary topics.
To this patron he dedicated a new version of his epic (Gerusalemme conquistata, published 1593), a poetic failure that reveals the extent of Tasso's final submission to the moral and literary prejudices of the times.
The stories themselves are full of zingy one-liners that would give West a run for her money, but they never detract from the book's sense of moral and literary heft.
It is a solid and noble effort that succumbs to what should be a moral of literary adaptation: bad books can make great movies, but a great book hardly ever does.
