With Marine Le Pen rising in the polls, the president has turned his attention to the ENA, a symbol of inequality
âEmmanuel Macron does not want to dispense with the idea of an elite school altogether but to build something that allegedly works better.â Photograph: Chesnot/Getty Images
âEmmanuel Macron does not want to dispense with the idea of an elite school altogether but to build something that allegedly works better.â Photograph: Chesnot/Getty Images
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On Thursday 8 April, Emmanuel Macron announced the closure of the prestigious Ãcole Nationale dâAdministration, Franceâs elite school for turning out senior civil servants and politicians. The presidentâs announcement sounded familiar â he had already pledged to reform the ENA, a school renowned for its conservatism and aversion to change, back in 2019 â but this time itâs final: Macron said that the time ha
Book World: Harold Bloom s rereading list scintillates but fails to satisfy
Wendy Smith, The Washington Post
Dec. 23, 2020
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The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread
By Harold Bloom
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Harold Bloom was one of the leading critics of his generation, and there is no question about his erudition. It is on full display in the posthumously published The Bright Book of Life as he examines novels to read and reread, from Cervantes Don Quixote to Joshua Cohen s Book of Numbers. If only his vast trove of knowledge weren t so often employed to place writers within a hierarchy. Must virtually every author be compared unfavorably with Shakespeare? Is it really necessary to close an exegesis of The Magic Mountain by declaring, Thomas Mann is not of the order of Marcel Proust and James Joyce, of Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett ? And why does Bloom find it necessary to assert, There are major male novelists - Samuel Richardson, Tolstoy, Henry James
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