![]() University of California, Los AngelesRichard Kaplan "Candide": Optimism Demolished, by Haydn Mason xvi & 111 pp. ![]() Its meanings reside, rather, in the rich, fluid, often unsettling experience of reading it, not in detachable statements suitable for sticking on buttons or bumpers." But he has given us an enjoyable, rewarding ride. True to his subject, Bickman denies us the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow we have ridden: "Waiden cannot be reduced to a single oudook or set of propositions about the world. ![]() We thus enjoy reimmersing ourselves in Thoreau's search for ways to search for trudi. Bickman's lucid readings impressively attend to Thoreau's rich language- etymological puns being one example-but he, too, writes richly allusive prose. Quite apart from the pleasure of seeing afresh Thoreau's humor and integrity, we have the pleasure ofreading about them from a critic perfecdy attuned to Thoreau, who approaches thinking and writing in the same spirit. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ģ62Philosophy and Literature But this work should also prove delightful to the most erudite Thoreau specialists. ![]()
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