Nabokov

[Becky Lindroos]

On Dec 14, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On another topic, which might be too obscure, I recently saw, on a book jacket, a quote by Saul Bellow, something like, "so-and-so is the worst thing to ever happen to American literature...". Any idea who he's talking about? Maybe Henry Miller? I can't remember, and it's become one of those things I can't get out of my mind.

Leslie Fiedler - a critic - 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Fiedler

The quote - I found the source at: 
http://www.salon.com/2003/01/02/fiedler/

The critic in winter 
The legendary American literary critic Leslie Fiedler talks about his encounters with Hemingway and Faulkner, his falling out with Bellow and which contemporary novelists will last. 
BRUCE BAUMAN

At the top of his voice, in the midst of a crowd of tourists, a large crowd, Bellow yelled, “Leslie Fiedler is the worst fucking thing that ever happened to American literature!” 

Bekah 


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