Dying public
Richard Romeo
richardromeo at hotmail.com
Thu May 11 09:36:20 CDT 2000
Malign--
><<when i look at a highly complex novel like "the counterlife" [1986], it
>also doesn't make a lot of sense to call roth a "realist" ...>>
>
>The Counterlife is marvelous. And there are far more ideas, more
>intellectual rigor, and more sheer narrative brilliance in Operation
>Shylock
>than in the overlong, overrated, and overbloated M&D.
>
>It's much funnier too.
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begs the question, sir, what you are here for, if not to prance and preen
your over-active arrogance. for someone who bristles at putting authors in
boxes, so to speak, comparing any two things, and judging them, is rather a
fruitless use of time.
Rich
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