 | Sherwood Anderson - 1919 - 346 pagine
...The old man had quite an elaborate ff theory concerning the matter. It was his notion n--» ^ that the moment one of the people took one of ^ the truths...grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood. You can see for yourself how the old man, who had spent all of his life writing and was filled with... | |
 | Sherwood Anderson - 1919 - 330 pagine
...'</ tesques. The old man had quite an elaborate theory concerning the matter. It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths...grotesque and ^ the truth he embraced became a falsehood. You can see for yourself how the old man, who had spent all of his life writing and was filled with... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1923 - 370 pagine
...of profligacy, of carelessness and abandon. . . . It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The moment one of the people took one of the truths...to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live by it, he became a grotesque, and the truth he embraced became a falsehood." When an author begins... | |
 | Freeman - 1924 - 420 pagine
...deformity. This, I suppose, is what the old man in the foreword to "Winesburg" means when he says "that the moment one of the people took one of the truths...grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood." This is the perplexity of the young man in "A Chicago Hamlet," in this volume, bathing himself in cold... | |
 | Sherwood Anderson - 1927 - 320 pagine
...grotesques. The old man had quite an elaborate theory concerning the matter. It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths...grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood. You can see for yourself how the old man, who had spent all of his life writing and was filled with... | |
 | Daniel T. O'Hara - 1988 - 340 pagine
..."truths" and their accompanying "life-styles": "It was the truths that made the people grotesques. . . . the moment one of the people took one of the truths...grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood" (LI, p. 27). Consequently, Trilling, like any humanist, is caught in the contradiction between his... | |
 | Arthur Asa Berger - 2011 - 224 pagine
...were quite strong snatched up a dozen of them. It was the truths that made the people grotesques. . . the moment one of the people took one of the truths...grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood. — Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio 11 After the Laughter: A Concluding Note I hope that the case... | |
 | Dieter Meindl - 1996 - 262 pagine
...Anderson entrusts "the writer, an old man," with defining the grotesque person: "It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths...grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood." 5 This "old writer" (23) can be identified neither as simply the author's mouthpiece-—despite the... | |
 | Jo Anna Isaak - 1996 - 266 pagine
...(enamel on metal silkscreen. 61 x 66 cm) 1986 (photo: Adam Reich: courtesy PPOW Gallery, New York). called it his truth, and tried to live his life by...grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood. Anderson's parable of the grotesque is really just another version of the institutional alignment we... | |
 | Jo Anna Isaak - 1996 - 320 pagine
...composite of a great many vague thoughts. ... It was the truths that made the people grotesques . . . the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, CURB YOUR ANIMAL CONTROLA TUSINSTINCTOANIMALE Figure 1.6 Ilona Granet, Curb Your Animal Instinct (enamel... | |
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It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood. 
