Argument Quote by Zadie Smith

I knew if I evoked that stuff too easily or gratuitously, as a way of assuaging my fears of not being edgy or whatever,…

— George Saunders

[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both backwards and…

— George Saunders

Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it.

— Zadie Smith

“The histories and tragedies of Shakespeare that Lincoln loved most dealt with themes that would resonate to a president in the midst of civil…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

George Saunders's 'Lincoln in the Bardo' is a hands-down masterpiece - the subject of Abraham Lincoln and the genius of this author is a…

— Jeffrey Tambor

The beginning [of Lincoln in the Bardo] is strange, and I did a lot of work calibrating that so that a reader with a…

— George Saunders

Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut up and…

— George Saunders

There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.

— George Canning

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime…

— John Divola

“We will simply say here that, as a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that…

— Victor Hugo

I felt I should also contrast Visconti's treatment of the novella - usually damned by Mann fans (who typically respect Britten's more "faithful" adaptation).…

— Philip Kitcher

“Whatever greatness Lincoln achieved cannot be explained as a triumph over personal suffering. Rather, it must be accounted for as an outgrowth of the…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk