no discernible talent

>>9867093
he said that about Gass too, you know.

>>9867097
was he wrong?
>inb4 yes

>>9867097
You can't expect a Jew to properly discern Gass.

>>9867115
not at all.
>>9867168
>assmad Gassfag

>>9867115

absolutely

to say Deef had no talent is just ridiculous

I haven't read a better American writer of sprawling sentences in the latter half of the twentieth century. His background in prescriptive grammar allowed him to craft dizzying passages that led the eye perfectly and he had some of the best pacing of any novelist in the last 30 years. He was damn funny and had some extremely relevant things to say.

That being said I completely understand why Bloom didn't like him and am not surprised that he didn't.

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>>9867168

is this the guy who said blood meridian was about gun control

>>9867303
That was an incredibly weird statement. I think Bloom had lost it by then.

>>9867168

I've never read Gass but didn't he write a book about that Holocaust thing that didn't happen?

>>9867214

damn derrida be caking that trump cream on

>>9867183
>[best] sprawling sentences
such as?
>dizzying passages that led the eye
such as?
>damn funny
when?
>[said] extremely relevant things
such as?
>I completely understand why Bloom didn't like him
explain it then

and this is how you spot a pseud l&g

>>9867097
''The creation of character is what matters,'' said Harold Bloom, a professor, critic and author who has known and disagreed with Mr. Gass since they were both students at Cornell University 50 years ago. ''I think the post-modern novel is increasingly a disaster. I'm tired of games. It can't be an accident that the three authors who manage to maintain themselves are Shakespeare, Jane Austin and Charles Dickens. It is because they create worlds and the worlds are full of people. But I don't want to be the anti-Gass.''

It sounds like Bloom actually respects Gass as a writer but disagrees with him on what a novel should be.