This article touches on an issue I’ve been grappling with for some time.

We are used to our towering cultural figures being a–holes (does anyone seriously think that being Beethoven’s girlfriend was anything less than a living hell, for example?).

But we still struggle with when these figures support morally repellent political views.

And it is true that many figures of early twentieth modernism were seduced by fascism and anti-semitism.

Pound, of course, I have spoken about a great deal.

Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun is another.

At the article above focuses on Gertrude Stein.

And no, I still don’t have a pat answer to the  dilemma.