3 hours with Bloom

[Carlos Ferrão]

Isn't Eco Italian?

On 21/08/06, April Phillips <apes1 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> I wouldn't replace Roth, but I'd definitely add Umberto Eco.  Both The
> Name
> of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum combine phenomenal plots with intense
> theoretical ideas.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "bekah" <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>; <JCarvill at algsoftware.com>;
> <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 9:55 AM
> Subject: RE: 3 hours with Bloom
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> > I'd replace Roth with Morrison.   Or at least I'd add her.  She gets put
> > down because she's black and female so there's a fear that to admire her
> > work is to fall for some PC crap.    BS.    Beloved is truly incredible
> -
> > as rereadable as Faulkner.
> >
> > Bekah
> >
> > At 3:00 PM +0300 8/21/06, Ya Sam wrote:
> >>BTW, do you guys agree with Bloom's quartet of the  greatest living
> >>American writers: Pynchon, McCarthy, Roth, Delillo? I mean, I have
> nothing
> >>against the first one, but can you think of anyone replacing somebody
> from
> >>the rest?
> >>
> >>In this interview when asked to distinguish some of the younger writers
> >>Bloom somehow got vague and named only a couple of poets, looks like
> he's
> >>a little bit behind the contemporary lit process.
> >>
> >>>From: "John Carvill" <JCarvill at algsoftware.com>
> >>>To: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>, <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> >>>Subject: RE: 3 hours with Bloom
> >>>Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:11:37 +0100
> >>>
> >>>Speaking of Bloom, does anyone have an electronic copy of his review of
> >>>Vineland, I think it was in the Paris Review?
> >>>
> >>>Cheers
> >>>JC
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