This exchange [between David Winters and me] began as a planned book review of Michael Levenson’s Modernism (Yale, 2011). But modernism has a way of making most plans fall apart. Our conversation was conducted by email during the viciously cold January of 2012. As Ezra Pound put it, we cannot make it cohere.
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I’m late seeing this, but what a thoughtful and informative exchange. You’ve given me a lot to think about and, of course, added books to my list. The Melancholy of Resistance arrived last week and is taunting me from a stack on my desk. Hope to get to it soon.
Thank you, Michelle, I appreciate your comment. I look forward to hearing what you think of ‘Melancholy’. I’d also recommend ‘War and War’. It may even be the better of the two.