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Leslie Fiedler

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One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.


— Leslie Fiedler


#come #him #i #like #mccarthy

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.


— Leslie Fiedler


#carver #easy #good #i #i think

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.


— Leslie Fiedler


#bellow #friend #my friend #never #saul

The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.


— Leslie Fiedler


#changed #finally #realized #situation

The middlebrow, I hate.


— Leslie Fiedler


#i

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.


— Leslie Fiedler


#certain #come #existence #fiction #into

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.


— Leslie Fiedler


#alive #always #art #been #die

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.


— Leslie Fiedler


#art form #both #commodity #different #first

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.


— Leslie Fiedler


#because #bellow #his #knows #me

What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along.


— Leslie Fiedler


#beautiful #beautiful way #better #blow #clear






About Leslie Fiedler






Did you know about Leslie Fiedler?

Even though the Kenyon Review was a journal often associated with New Criticism Fiedler questioned the principles of New Criticism in his writing. Fiedler's argument includes descriptions of Montanans that were thought to be offensive to the actual residents of his community. After performing various translation-oriented duties Fiedler was discharged in 1945.

Leslie Aaron Fiedler (March 8 1917 – January 29 2003) was an American literary critic known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. He was in practical terms one of the early postmodernist critics working across literature in general from around 1970.

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