Reception
The New York Times wrote, in its review,
| “ | Powerful and ugly and beautiful...a moving story of a man who deeply wants a world without malice and hate and is doing something about it." | ” |
The book has been the subject of critical commentary, particularly in reference to its use of the pejorative term as the title. It remains one of his best known works.
Read more about this topic: Nigger (1964 book)
Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)