Literature Talk

[Ghetta Life]

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,1666780,00.html


Philip Roth: Let's Shut Down The Literary World:

"I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you 
shut down all literature departments, close the book reviews, ban the 
critics. The readers should be alone with the books, and if anyone dared to 
say anything about them, they would be shot or imprisoned right on the spot. 
Yes, shot. A 100-year moratorium on insufferable literary talk. You should 
let people fight with the books on their own and rediscover what they are 
and what they are not. Anything other than this talk. Fairytale talk. As 
soon as you generalise, you are in a completely different universe than that 
of literature, and there's no bridge between the two."

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