Kero Kero Bonito and the Sublimation of Irony
Louis Menand opens his 1987 study of T.S. Eliot, Discovering Modernism: T.S. Eliot and His Context with a beautiful and provocative chapter entitled “Literary Honesty.” The chapter is concerned with outlining the history behind the idea of literary sincerity, and Menand convincingly demonstrates that Eliot,