Contains detailed studies of Dickens and Kipling, and shorter pieces on Casanova, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Most of the essays deal with the relation between creative activity and psychological injury and...
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Contains detailed studies of Dickens and Kipling, and shorter pieces on Casanova, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Most of the essays deal with the relation between creative activity and psychological injury and maladjustment. It is this central theme that gives point to the title, derived from a play by Sophocles in which the hero is armed with an invincible bow although handicapped by an incurable wound.
