Musings on Mortality

“Elegant, beautifully written literary criticism, examining how eight major writers—‘From Tolstoy to Primo Levi’—dealt with death in their fiction.” — The Wall Street Journal “All art and the love of art,” Victor Brombert writes at the beginning of the deeply personal Musings on Mortality , “allow us to negate our nothingness.” As a young man returning from World War II, Brombert came to understand this truth as he immersed himself in literature. Death can be found everywhere in literature, he s