![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nothing ever seemed to excite her or faze her or disappoint her, largely because she set her sights so low to begin with. ![]() Didion, of course, belongs to the first breed. The literary scholar Christopher Ricks made a distinction between being “unenchanted” and “disenchanted.” The latter category implies that you have been let down in your hopes and dreams the former that you never had any to begin with. As the seismic waves of praise have rolled in since her death at the age of 87, it’s clear to me that her standing has only ascended since. It was impossible not to be aware of Didion’s exalted position as a gifted novelist and New Journalist (one of very few women, although feminism was not her thing) if you were in any way conscious of literary opinions. ” The essay took a stand against the adulation surrounding the writer’s work: her discerning but intractably disaffected persona and the immutable aura of unenchantment that informed her voice. In 1979, as a young and intrepid critic, I devoted my books column in The New Leader to Joan Didion’s “The White Album. ![]()
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