CREATORS: FROM CHAUCER TO WALT DISNEY
by JOHNSON, PAUL
List Price: HK$ 340.00
¡@ISBN
9780297851233
¡@Subject
SOCIETY, POLITICS & PHILOSOPHY
¡@Publisher
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON UK
¡@Publication
2006
¡@Edition
Hardcover
¡@Version
Original
¡@Description
Twenty years ago Paul Johnson published Intellectuals, which questioned whether intellectuals were morally fit to give advice to humanity. It was translated into a score of languages, but it was also criticized for picking on the bad behaviour of clever and gifted people. Paul Johnson now meets the charge with this companion volume which celebrates the achievements of outstanding and prolific creative spirits. The obstacles and difficulties which faced these creators ¡V and the importance of self-confidence, courage and luck ¡V are a recurrent theme. If creation is ultimately a mystery that cannot be analysed, it can be illustrated in such a way as to bring out its salient characteristics. That is the purpose of this instructive and witty book.
