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Does he matter today, as Adam Kirsch asserts? One may answer, a trifle easily, that in an anti-literary climate, anyone who insists on the seriousness of literature, and the responsibility of close reading that it requires, matters more than ever.
Trilling can be a dull writer, partly because he is so scrupulous in his attempt to say precisely what he means – and the result is sometimes less than precise. Kirsch sees Trilling as a hero of the written word.
“He knew that literature’s victories are always achieved against the larger circumstance of defeat, that to live a literary life – which also means to live life according to the disciplines of literature – is itself the best, most inspiring resistance to unliterary culture."
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