April 1982 Issue [Books] Contempt causes insanity Download PDF Adjust Share The guru of aesthetic realism by Hugh Kenner, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Aesthetic Realism Biography Book reviews Books Buildings E.J. Applewhite Eli Siegel Farms, Small Franz Kafka Guidebooks Novelists, Austrian Reviews Ronald Hayman Washington (D.C.) Wendell Berry Western Hemisphere More from Hugh Kenner The Reading Public I heard about a rejection letter recently that deserves preservation in these days of big-time word-merchandising. “I cannot recall reading,” it said without irony, “a novel as learned, as intelligent,… Out my computer window Travels in the land of BIX Ear culture Adjust Share