Harold Bloom's tastes
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 11 Feb 2002
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Michael Andre-Driussi — 11 Feb 2002, 21:58

> 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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