A quite remarkable book which, now having read, has immediately become a noticable portion of the furniture of my mind... A fine intoduction (for me) to the modernist ethic and the modernist aesthetic... which I've been seeking to understand (with quite some difficulty) for the past two-plus years.A...
I hated this book. Tedious and hopelessly intellectual without any sympathetic characters (I know, that's the point). It was as though the author never edited it. Like a crappy Swann's Way. I couldn't stand to think of wasting my life on (the unfinished!) volume 2.