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Leviathan by Paul Auster

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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The postmodern attitude is like a corrosive acid that threatens to harm even its most careful users. Advocates delight in its overturning of hierarchies of truth and validation, but this same stance also undermines any claims made by the post-modernist scribe. If all narratives are suspect, all authors less than authoritative,…

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