Literature Talk

[David Casseres]

I love literary talk, but I'm sure 95% of it is utter bullshit from
the writers' point of view.  If I were Philip Roth I can easily
imagine feeling the same way

On 12/15/05, Joel Katz <mittelwerk at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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."
> >
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