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seemingly straightforward prose paints a vibrant picture of human compromise and cooperation with both humor and restraint

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Gnomon Argentinian Literature Series the writer is pitted inThe gnomon is the part of a sundial that casts its shadow, and Gnomon: Essays on Contemporary Literature represents, in its authors words, a report on ten years watching of shadows. Collecting the earliest short essays and reviews by a man who was arguably the greatest English landguage critic scholar of the twentieth century, Gnomon not only provides valuable, entertaining, and often scabrous insights into the workings of literature, as well as the