Robert Denham (Editor)
(House of Anansi Press, 2004)
Northrop Frye once wrote, "I've always wanted to write 'my own' book of pensées. The disadvantage of this project is that it can't be planned." Fulfilling Frye's own idea, Robert D. Denham has drawn from Frye's own notebooks and diaries a hugely entertaining collection of literary musings, thoughts on religion, and aphoristic speculations on a broad range of topics. We see Frye unbuttoning his suit jacket and revealing his vulnerable side - idiosyncratic, cranky, irreverent, down-to-earth. The book also contains many personal and autobiographical passages such as
the moving entries on the death of Frye's wife, Helen. Northrop Frye Unbuttoned illuminates Frye's remarkable character and thought in ways that reveal a different man and writer than most have previously envisioned.
