When they say this, I feel dyspeptic and misunderstood

Chaudhuri’s opening to an essay in his new collection, The Origins of Dislike (2018), limns well the sort of thinly conscious generalized bias his modernism had to work against.

the senescence of these globalized cultural paragons, once pulsing with heroic narrative optimism, gave way to a range of wandering, antispectacular, patient vogues