Subject: Re: Fw: Fw: Martin Amis on Bellow ,
VN, et al
There's a very embarrassing level of defensiveness going on
on this board re Bellow.
Bellow's greatness--and Bellow is quite as great
as Amis claims--makes no dent in VN's claim to same.
With no intent to
compare him to or rate him against VN--Bellow is a marvel. His style is
one of the wonders of 20th century fiction, a seamless mix of the erudite and
the street and the gradations in between. Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet,
Humboldt's Gift, More Die of Heartbreak--these are wonderful, great
novels.
There's something very cultish in the unanimity of the responses
here ... Embarrassing, as I said.