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America grows older yet stays focused on its young. Whatever hill we try to climb, we're "over" it by fifty and should that hill involve entertainment or athletics we're finished long before. But if younger is better, it doesn't appear that youngest is best: we want our teachers, doctors, generals, and presidents to have reached a certain age. In context after context and contest after contest, we're more than a little conflicted about elders of the tribe; when is it right to honor them, and when to say "step aside"?
In LASTINGNESS, Nicholas Delbanco, one of America's most celebrated men of letters, profiles great geniuses in the fields of visual art, literature, and music-Monet, Verdi, O'Keeffe, Yeats, among others - searching for the answers to why some artists' work diminishes with age, while others' reaches its peak. Both an intellectual inquiry into the essence of aging and creativity and a personal journey of discovery, this is a brilliant exploration of what determines what one needs to do to keep the habits of creation and achievement alive.
In LASTINGNESS, Nicholas Delbanco, one of America's most celebrated men of letters, profiles great geniuses in the fields of visual art, literature, and music-Monet, Verdi, O'Keeffe, Yeats, among others - searching for the answers to why some artists' work diminishes with age, while others' reaches its peak. Both an intellectual inquiry into the essence of aging and creativity and a personal journey of discovery, this is a brilliant exploration of what determines what one needs to do to keep the habits of creation and achievement alive.
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Nicholas Delbanco has published twenty-four books of fiction and non-fiction. His most recent novels are The Count of Concord and Spring and Fall; his most recent works of non-fiction are The Countess of Stanlein Restored and The Lost Suitcase: Reflections on the Literary Life. As editor he has compiled the work of, among others, John Gardner and Bernard Malamud. Director of the Hopwood Awards Program at the University of Michigan, he has served as Chair of the Fiction Panel for the National Book Awards, received a Guggenheim Fellowship and, twice, a National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship.
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In Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot declaims, “Old men should be explorers.” In Delbanco’s twenty-sixth book, he profiles a wide array of men and women who embodied Eliot’s edict—painters, sculptors, composers, and writers who thrived in old age. Delbanco argues for “lastingness: the quality of being lasting; continuance; duration; permanence” and discusses the life-long habits that made his subjects’ late work possible. Even if his examples do not always conform to his thesis, Delbanco’s anecdotes do exhibit his finesse as a storyteller. The great Pablo Casals, for example, drags himself to the podium, then is transformed by music. With joy we learn about the poet Hölderlin and admire the shy Italian novelist Giuseppe di Lampedusa, writing his first book and masterpiece, The Leopard, in blue notebooks while sitting in a favorite café. Rejected twice while he was alive, it was published to great acclaim after his death. Delbanco’s writing grows more urgent near the end of this intriguing study of sustained creativity. --Michael Autrey
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