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
less literature merely piece verbal
The ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
love voice long
I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
blue jeans class
There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.
reading reason talk-to-me
The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
france mets agree
Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.
gertrude married frail
Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
hands interesting needs
Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?
teacher students wanted
Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.
nice writing surface
DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.
next poet middle
Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.
writing men years
I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.
views female point-of-view
Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.
advice my-friends
Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
writing enemy gave-up
I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.