Anybody read this ? This is my first book from Gardner btw. As

>>9643796
You've come to the wrong board froggie.

>>9643796
Grendel is read pretty frequently. On Moral Fiction has its followers but it was much more influential back in the 1980's than it is today. I haven't read Mickelsons Ghosts.

> is Gardner read a lot in the US ?

High Schoolers typically read Beowulf and then Gardner's novel Grendel; beyond that, his works are not read here.

>>9644119
My edition's preface says On Moral Fictions was shat on and considered reactionary, is this true ?
Also bump

>>9643796
gardner got completely BTFO by gass and gaddis

he's a pseud

>>9645023
He seemed to think dark humor was immoral, so he considered Beckett and Pynchon among others immoral. Also that fiction should be life affirming if it is to be considered moral fiction. I found the later strange because an awful lot of religious literature is far from life affirming. Most will tell you that the world is a vale of tears. Or that life is suffering. If I remember right he also ripped on Catch 22 because Yossarian wasn't willing to die fighting the Nazis.

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I read most of Gardner when I was in my 20s. Some good stuff. I don't think it aged well. My porblem with MG was the professor protagonist (yawn) and the weird twist at the end with the Mormons.