“ When it is complicated by the genius being a woman, then the game is one for a king of critics ”
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903). copy citation
Author | George Bernard Shaw |
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Source | Man and Superman |
Topic | genius critics |
Date | 1903 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3328/3328-h/3328-h.htm |
Context
“work his nerves into rags without payment, a sublime altruist in his disregard of himself, an atrocious egotist in his disregard of others. Here Woman meets a purpose as impersonal, as irresistible as her own; and the clash is sometimes tragic. When it is complicated by the genius being a woman, then the game is one for a king of critics: your George Sand becomes a mother to gain experience for the novelist and to develop her, and gobbles up men of genius, Chopins, Mussets and the like, as mere hors d'oeuvres.
I state the extreme case, of course;”
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