Harold Bloom's tastes

The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 11 Feb 2002
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/2953

Michael Andre-Driussi11 Feb 2002, 21:58original
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Marc Aramini wrote: If Bloom praises Crowley and David Lindsay so highly, I can only imagine he would not dismiss Wolfe out of hand if he read his work (as he dismisses, say, Dorris Lessing). Alga, didn't you have some vague connection with Bloom at one time? (sorry if I misremembered that). Foist Wolfe on him.
My strong impression is that Bloom enjoys Lindsay and Crowley so very much because their work (well . . . A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS, let us say, since I've never seen Bloom mention any other Lindsay but I would bet that he has read at least a few others, if not all of them) is so unambiguously Gnostic. As such, he would probably not like Gene Wolfe's fiction, even ambiguously semi-Gnostic works such as TBOTNS. =mantis= Sirius Fiction booklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley http://www.siriusfiction.com/

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