The Critic as Artist

7 best books like The Critic as Artist (Oscar Wilde): Simulacra and Simulation, Against Nature, In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People, Notes on Camp, Myth and Reality, Jij zegt het, On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

Simulacra and Simulation

Author	Jean Baudrillard
ISBN	0472065211

The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies...

Against Nature

Author	Joris-Karl Huysmans
ISBN	0140447636

With a title translated either as Against Nature or as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-de-siècle novel follows its sole character, Des Esseintes, a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where he indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous...

In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People

Author

George K. Simon Jr.

I read this book because of other reviews on Goodreads that I saw, which highlighted some tactics that manipulative people use against others. They struck a chord of familiarity for me, as I've known various people in my life who have used these methods repeatedly to avoid responsibility for their aggression....

Notes on Camp

Author	Susan Sontag
ISBN	0241339707

'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'

These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering...

Myth and Reality

Author	Mircea Eliade
ISBN	1577660099

An informative guide to the modern mythologies! This classic study, translated from the original French, deals primarily with societies around the world in which myth is--or was until very recently-- "living," in the sense that it supplies models for human behavior and, by that very fact, gives meaning...

Jij zegt het

Author

Connie Palmen

Voor de meeste mensen bestaan wij alleen in een boek, mijn bruid en ik. De afgelopen vijfendertig jaar heb ik met een machteloos afgrijzen moeten aanzien hoe onze echte levens bedolven raakten onder een modderstroom van apocriefe verhalen, valse getuigenissen, roddels, verzinsels, mythen, hoe...

On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

Author	Thomas de Quincey
ISBN	0141397888

'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...'

In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically...