The flattened American landscape of minor writers

[János Székely]

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János

2009/2/18 Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>:
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> "And now this masterly blasphemer, whose literary schemes and
> pretty conceits touched at points on the Shakespearean, is gone,
> and American letters, deprived in recent years of its giants,
> Bellow and Mailer, is a leveled plain, with one solitary peak
> guarded by Roth. We are coming to the end of the golden age of
> the American novel in the twentieth century's second half."
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> Ian McEwan, "On John Updike"
> _New York Review of Books_ Volume 56, Number 4, March 12 2009
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> Thinking of petty Tom and poor Willie,
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> Heikki
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