[ilds] pinching Spengler

[Bruce Redwine]

Julie,

Thanks for the reference.  Spengler has fallen out of favor for about the last sixty or seventy years at least (along with Arnold Toynbee, another historian with a sweeping theory), so it's no surprise you haven't hear of him, nor your parents or grandparents for that matter.  He's treated nowadays as a curiosity, like Siggy Freud.  If you want a recent assessment of Spengler and his place in Modernism, see Cathy Gere's Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism (Chicago 2009).  The book has problems, but it's very interesting, and she brings a lot together.  I can't help you with The Revolt of Aphrodite.  I haven't read it — couldn't get past the first few pages.  Good luck on the paper.  It's good to see new readers interested in what old LD was up to.


Bruce


On Jan 31, 2010, at 3:25 PM, J. A. Kobayashi wrote:

> Bruce,
> 
> The quote is from page 161 of Lawrence Durrell:  Conversations but I don't have access to the book right now--just a transcription of everything I could find in it that related to The Revolt of Aphrodite.  In addition, pages 153-163 are missing from the Google books preview, so I can't tell you where the interview was.  I CAN tell you that I'd never heard of Spengler before reading Durrell's references to him an interview (possibly the one I quoted from in my post), so I take it that he (Spengler) may have once been much more of a household name than he presently is.  On the other hand, at least when I borrowed The Decline of the West from my library it had been checked out once last year, the last time Art and Artist had been checked out was 1971.  I will be sure to check out the Grand Central Oyster Bar as well for "research purposes" (since, as it happen, I'll be departing for a month long trip to Providence, RI and NYC in one week).  Charles, thank you very much for the response to and forwarding of my inquiry in regard to possible OMG submission.  You should be receiving my reply shortly.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Julie
> 
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Charles Sligh <Charles-Sligh at utc.edu> wrote:
> Bruce Redwine wrote:
> > Good interview.  Was it in the Oyster Bar in the basement of Grand Central?  Also makes me hungry for clams and Spengler, along with a pint or two.
> >
> >
> Yes--I like the suggestion about Grand Central--I can recall discovering
> that bar late at night while wandering one cold December.
> 
> C&c.
> 
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