Western Canon

Back Cover Article (From the Promotional Bulletin)

In this work, which has been considered a cornerstone since the day it was published, Harold Bloom, one of the leading literary critics, calls on readers to know and understand creative literature in depth, based on Shakespeare, which he puts at the center of the Canon in the Western literary world. While doing this, he focuses on Shakespeare, as well as Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Montaigne, Moliére, Milton, Johnson, Goethe, Wordsworth, Austen, Whitman, Dickinson, Dickens, George Eliot, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Freud, Proust, Joyce, Woolf, He adds Kafka, Borges, Neruda, Pessoa and Beckett.

The Western Canon is not just Bloom's listing of writers who influenced the literary world; It is a work that allows us to define the parts of literature that touch us and our lives, and to look at ourselves and our history through literature. Bloom, who is above all an incorrigible literature lover, opens a wide window to the Canon in this work and thus turns the Western Canon into a reference book for good readers, literature lovers and those who want to read literary criticism. Thus, the gap in the Canon, which has been tried to be guided by various academic discussions for years, is closed and we are left to pursue a book that is well organized in both historical and literary terms.

“Reading Bloom's comments is like reading classic writers in the light of lightning.”

- MH Abrams

( The Norton Anthology of English Literature editor, critic)