- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books; Open Market Ed edition (1 Sep 1988)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140109625
- ISBN-13: 978-0140109627
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 479,921 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The imaginative range, intellectual force and infectious generosity of this book are what place it incontestably in the gallery of canonical texts. --Mica Nava, Times Higher Education Supplement
A bubbling cauldron of ideas. --New Statesman
A wonderful book ... generous, exuberant and dazzling. --John Leonard, New York Times --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
A bubbling cauldron of ideas. --New Statesman
A wonderful book ... generous, exuberant and dazzling. --John Leonard, New York Times --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Praise for All That Is Solid Melts Into Air The imaginative range, intellectual force and infectious generosity of this book are what place it incontestably in the gallery of canonical texts.A" Mica Nava, Times Higher Education Supplement A bubbling cauldron of ideas.A" New Statesman A wonderful book ... generous, exuberant and dazzling.A" John Leonard, New York Times Berman lights up every text he examines.A" Newsweek
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Taking its title from the quote by Karl Marx, Berman's authoritative study into the modernist experience, originally written in 1981, still has major significance in the midst of the information revolution and the death of the Soviet Union.
He takes the reader back to analyze literature from Goethe, Baudelaire and Marx himself to Russian masters such as Gogol and Mandelstam, observing how their writing helped to frame our understanding of Modernism set against the developing social and economic framework of the Western world.
At the heart of the book is Nevsky Prospekt, the ultra-modern street in the heart of the first true modern city in Petersburg that gave birth to the most important moment of 20th century history.
He takes the reader back to analyze literature from Goethe, Baudelaire and Marx himself to Russian masters such as Gogol and Mandelstam, observing how their writing helped to frame our understanding of Modernism set against the developing social and economic framework of the Western world.
At the heart of the book is Nevsky Prospekt, the ultra-modern street in the heart of the first true modern city in Petersburg that gave birth to the most important moment of 20th century history.
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This book develops the idea that Modernity's defining characteristic is that of the continual reassertion of ambivalence. In light of this argument the author revisits writers such as Goete, Marx and Dostoevsky adding new dimensions to them all as well as to our understanding of Modernity. A book of tremendous wisdom and intelligence. Well written and highly recommended.
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One of the greatest books about the relevance of Marxism to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries ever written. A thrilling roller coaster ride about love in cafes, city planning, architecture, romance, how we work and how we live. Incomparable.
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