Bloom on BM

[Paul Mackin]

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From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: Bloom on BM


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> 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.....
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> 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......
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> For What It is Worth.
>
> Mark

Bloom is quite forthright about his Marxist orientation.

"What ever it is I'm against it,"


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> 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
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> http://www.avclub.com/articles/harold-bloom-on-blood-meridian,29214/
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> a book I can't help revisiting every few years--wolves, apaches, gun
> smoke, and the Judge
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> 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.
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