Bloom on BM

[Mark Kohut]

In a Barnes & Noble college textbook store outside of NY,
I found some big literary anthology with critics. In the store I read a moving-enough
essay by Bloom on a reread of Lot 49. A reread set in the 00s after/during the buildup?
to the Iraq war.....he nicely linked the paranoia then to the paranoia in the novella....he wrote
of how this novella has lawys spoken to the paranopia of the times.....

I thought this essay would be in one of his books and be easy to find. I didn't try as
hard as I could, but it isn't easy to find......

For What It is Worth.

Mark



----- Original Message ----
From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: "pynchon-l at waste.org“" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 2:20:58 PM
Subject: Bloom on BM

http://www.avclub.com/articles/harold-bloom-on-blood-meridian,29214/

a book I can't help revisiting every few years--wolves, apaches, gun
smoke, and the Judge

I don’t know what I would choose if I had to select a single work of
sublime fiction from the last century, it probably would not be
something by Roth or McCarthy; it would probably be Mason & Dixon, if
it were a full-scale book, or if it were a short novel it would
probably be The Crying Of Lot 49. Pynchon has the same relation to
fiction, I think, that my friend John Ashbery has to poetry: he is
beyond compare.