A Splendid Intelligence Aesthetics and monstrosity

and monstrosity

Mayröcker transforms the humble page into spaces of radical openness

* Exploiting weaknesses to develop an attack

before all the pets get noisy together in the irresistible musical finale

A Splendid Intelligence Aesthetics and monstrosityBorn in Kentucky, Elizabeth Hardwick left for New York City on a Greyhound bus in 1939 and quickly made a name for herself as a formidable member of the intellectual elite. Her eventful life included stretches of dire poverty, romantic escapades, and dustups with authors she eviscerated in The New York Review of Books, of which she was a cofounder. She formed lasting friendships with literary notables including Mary McCarthy, Adrienne Rich, and Susan