So, all in all: claims to be a "man in his times, not an old fashioned personality portrait style biography", succeeds with the "and his times" part but serves up so much bias without admitting to that it makes you long for those 19th century guys who openly admit they're biased as hell.
YES This (or rather the opposite of this) was how I felt about Orieux, like, he was openly opinionated about a lot of things, but he admitted pretty frankly to it and said why. The bias without admitting to it drives me NUTS.
Isn't Stollberg-Rillinger working on a FW bio? That should be interesting.
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Re: FW and the Younglings
Date: 2021-04-16 05:12 am (UTC)YES
This (or rather the opposite of this) was how I felt about Orieux, like, he was openly opinionated about a lot of things, but he admitted pretty frankly to it and said why. The bias without admitting to it drives me NUTS.
Isn't Stollberg-Rillinger working on a FW bio? That should be interesting.