Lionel Trilling Quote

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.


Partisan Review 50th Anniversary Edition (1985)


Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.