Nordau
Americannoun
noun
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One of the big books of 1892 was “Degeneration,” whose author, Max Nordau, was Hungarian but lived most of his life in Paris.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 11, 2014
Blank, for instance, spends time fruitfully considering degeneration—a perversion of Darwin that lay behind some lethal pseudo-science—but she neglects to mention the famous Max Nordau book of that title.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2012
So down went the British economy and nobody knew why until 1893, when a joyless patriot named Max Nordau published his book Degeneration.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2010
Nordau claimed Britain's problem wasn't lagging exports or technological stagnation, but degenerate pop culture.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2010
Nordau told me in Paris that Tolstoy was a combination of genius and insanity.
From Abroad with the Jimmies by Bell, Lilian
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