Irresponsible Self
When James Wood''s first collection of essays, The Broken Estate, was published in 1999, the reviewers hailed a master critic. The common thread in Wood''s latest collection of essays is what makes us laugh - and the book is an attempt to distinguish between the perhaps rather limited English comedy (as seen in Waugh, for example) and a ''continental'' tragic-comedy, which he sees as real, univers...
When James Wood''s first collection of essays, The Broken Estate, was published in 1999, the reviewers hailed a master critic. The common thread in Wood''s latest collection of essays is what makes us laugh - and the book is an attempt to distinguish between the perhaps rather limited English comedy (as seen in Waugh, for example) and a ''continental'' tragic-comedy, which he sees as real, univers...
