Literature Talk

[lsavage at westmont.edu]

Echoes C.S. Lewis (In "An Experiment in Criticism"):

"I suggest that a ten or twenty years' abstinence both from the reading and from 
the writing of evaluative criticism might do us all a great deal of good."

Quoting Joel Katz <mittelwerk at hotmail.com>:

> now that's some senile, curmudgeonly bullshit.
> 
> 
> >From: "Ghetta Life" <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com>
> >
> >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."
> >
> >_________________________________________________________________
> >Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! 
> >http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/
> >
> 
> _________________________________________________________________
> On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to 
> get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement
> 
>