Ruin the Sacred Truths - Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present Day - Paperback - 1991

Winner of the Christian Gauss Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1989, this surveys the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. In doing so, Bloom concludes that our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations.
Year of publication: 1991
Pagination: 214 pages
Format: Paperback
Serie: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures