Leslie Fiedler
Leslie Fiedler
Leslie Aaron Fiedlerwas an American literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. His work also involves application of psychological theories to American literature. His most cited work is Love and Death in the American Novel...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth8 March 1917
CountryUnited States of America
telling-the-truth assignments
My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
novelists
One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.
moving years space
When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.
comic stills
Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.
looks pages lasts
It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.
august light rooms
Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.
funny thinking patterns
I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.
firefighter people want
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
wrestling arms affection
I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.
kings people remember
When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.
funny critics
It's funny to be a critic.
american-critic
Writers always know whether you like them or not.
call large love people prefer queer themselves
I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.
american-critic art both folk form
The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.