A review by leelulah
The Cocktail Party by T.S. Eliot

4.0

I think somehow Exiled and The Jeweller's Shop fit perfectly with this one. The crisis of marriage, infidelity, and a sense of sin that apparently needs to be buried in the age of psychological analysis. Refreshing, brilliant and ever relevant, this has been my first reading of T.S. Eliot's literary production, and I'm not one bit disappointed. To be able to read human nature this well only can be possible for someone like him. Classical in nature and conception, since it mostly respects Aristotle's principles in Poetics, yet with the threatening hopelessness of the postmodern world lurking in the shadows.