Requiestat in pace, Harold Bloom

[Heikki R]

"I don't know what I would choose if I had to select a single work of
sublime fiction from the last century... 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." Harold Bloom in 2009