Falling Upwards

Essays in Defense of the Imagination

Lee Siegel

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Basic Books
05 September 2006

The Arts: General & Reference; Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Popular culture

"Sex and the City, Saul Bellow,

Eyes Wide Shut , Dante and the American self, Barbara Kingsolver, acting in Hollywood, Soviet painting in Soho,

Angels in America , Jane Austen in the present, J.K. Rowling- nothing escapes Lee Siegel's incandescent eye. Siegel possesses an intellectual range and independent perspective unmatched by his peers, and

Falling Upwards

brings together the best of his essays, all of them rich with the trades mark wit and intelligence that have won him many friends and a few enemies. In these essential writings, Siegel deftly uses the occasion of a book, film, painting, or television show not merely to appraise it, but to make sense of life in a way that is more defiant of impoverished cultural ""norms"" than most contemporary artistic expression. Guided by the belief that a calculating self-interest in art-making diminishes the prospects for the imagination in life, Siegel celebrates authentic sensibilities and lambasts manufactured sentiments. With uncanny insight, yet also with incomparable logic and analytical rigor, he has invented a new idiom in which the language of criticism embodies the playful, creative, synthesizing power that has been largely abdicated by the arts in our time. In writing about works of culture, Siegel has created a standard by which to judge them."

By: Lee Siegel
Imprint: Basic Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 143mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 457g
ISBN: 9780465078004
ISBN 10: 0465078001
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 05 September 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unknown

Lee Siegel is a renowned critic and essayist whose writing appears in Harpers, The New Republic, Time, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books among other publications. He received the 2002 National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism. He lives in New York City.