Quotes by Trilling, Lionel

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually >>

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched a >>

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precis >>

Quotations about Literature

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of >>

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to mak >>

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of pay >>

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

Trilling, Lionel