Bloom on BM

[Ian Livingston]

Do you mean his (Bloom's) Marxist orientation as an economic socialist
or as a literary formalist?

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Paul Mackin<mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- 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.
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>> Mark
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> Bloom is quite forthright about his Marxist orientation.
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> "What ever it is I'm against it,"
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>> ----- 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
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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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