Has anyone here read Harold Bloom's novel? Does it have

>>9062572
Harold Bloom's novel is the greatest reason why I don't listen to him

The opinion of "critics" who have never written a good work is completely worthless.

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>>9062581

So the only critic you listen to is Susan Sontag?

>>9062581

Does one truly need to be a good creator to be a "good" critic? I would think that the quality/appeal of a critic comes more from what knowledge of the field they bring and how they can broaden the reading of a work.

I don't need to have released an album to know when a song is "bad" or "good" or to recommend that song to friends. I don't see why a critic HAS to be an author also.

>>9062604
(not true, by the way)

>>9062589
Who said Susan Sontag wrote a good book?

>>9062637

Which part are you saying is untrue?

An author's criticism would only be valuable to authors.
A reader's criticism is valuable to readers.

>>9062581
You can make good points and be a terrible writer at the same time. Just be conscious that you are bad, how and why.

>>9062581

Have you written "a good work?"

what are some critics that have god tier fiction novels?

>>9062775
Oscar Wilde

>>9062870
how about contemporary ones? or after ww2

>>9062939

Jonathan Lethem and Zadie Smith write critical essays for the New Yorker and other publications and both are accomplished authors of fiction.

>>9062572
yes, not really

>>9062581
pseud

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>>9062949
thanks

It's a cool idea though.

>>9062572
Isn't it just an embarrassing fanfic of The Voyage to Arcturus?

>>9063718
Yup.

Plenty of good writers have shit opinions. Look at Tolstoi and his hatred of Shakespeare for not being moral enough.
>>9062775
>>9062939
...Nabokov.
>>9063718
Yup.

Is there a PDF for this book?

It's neither on Bibliotik nor LibGen.