Always with us, alas, incomprehensible writing about culture and the arts became more frequent, if not more acceptable, in the wake of intellectual invasions from France, beginning in the 1970s, continuing into the 1980s and perhaps into the 1990s. Examples are so plentiful nowadays, not only in books but pretentious magazines, that I fear singling out examples, because readers might think I chose one or another example out of revenge or personal distaste.
The theme of incomprehensible critical...