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10818671 No.10818671 [Reply] [Original]

Does anybody here have lessons or had lessons in the past with Harold Bloom?

If yes, is he kind enough to spare a moment of his time to read excerpts from literature made by young new authors (something like 20-30 pages)?

I don’t even write in English, but I have translated some of my work and I would like to mail it to him, to see what he would say about it. I have published two books, but not one critic in my native country - from any newspaper, blog or magazine - has bothered reading them. I am not very good in promoting myself, and my style of writing is not that popular nowadays. It is as if the books didn’t exist at all.

I found out recently that critics generally just read what the Publishing houses send them, and in my case the access to major critics was simply not possible (I being from a third world country and launching the books by a small publisher).

I strongly believe, however, that Bloom would like my material. If not, then at least I know that someone who actually loves literature and is not afraid to speak his mind has criticized the faults in my efforts with impartiality and with a mind that is a huge wool-ball composed of thousands of speeches, endless phrases, verses and echoes uttered by great authors from all ages and places.

So, if someone here actually knows Bloom: is there a chance of him reading my material if I send to the correct address?

>> No.10818678

>>10818671
low quality bait

>> No.10818790

>>10818678
My I ask why?

Some options:

a) My stuff is obviously of low quality and do not deserve the attention of a famous literary critic.

b) To expect that Bloom would have time to look at the material of an unknown writer – be the thing itself good or bad – is nonrealistic, since he has hundreds of more important things to do with his time.

c) Wanting the opinion of Bloom is stupid because he is not a good critic.

d) Thinking that anybody on /lit/ might have had classes with Bloom is stupid and unrealistic, since nobody here would have the necessary grades/money to be in Yale.

>> No.10818796

>>10818790
b, c and the fact that I don't trust anybody on this board.

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>>10818671

>> No.10818815

>>10818796
):

>> No.10820208

well, i was going to send him a poem i wrote, it's ~25 lines, i'll tell you if he responds

>> No.10820653

>>10820208

Are you going to use his Yale e-mail? I suspect he doesn’t even check that address.

>> No.10820670

Surely this fucker has stopped teaching now. Last time I saw him being interview he was one foot and half a toe in the grave.

By the time you send him your turds, he'll already be halfway to sheol

>> No.10820675

>>10818671
He's half dead anon, I think he's spending his last days rereading Dante, Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson.

>> No.10820716

>>10820675

But he didn’t just finished a massive book on American literature? I read an interview of him from a few days ago and he seemed very lucid.

>> No.10820783

>>10818678
It's actually high-quality bait for this board t.bee.h

>> No.10820832
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>>10818671

Just a random snipe, but I opened one of his books to get some of that hot literary analysis... it was 100% reference spotting. Just some nerd hoping to impress you with all the books he's read. If that's all higher literature is, I'm not impressed.

And what's the logic behind reverence of the classics, anyway? Shouldn't our literature become more sophisticated, i.e more worthy of study, the more intelligent our society becomes?

>> No.10822114

>>10820716
>>10820670

He will live for some 10 years more

>> No.10822263

>>10820832
Time is a filter for art. Classics are the pieces of art that were good enough to get caught by the filter and survive until now, while all the garbage and mediocrity was forgotten about. It would be pretty obnoxious for anyone to claim that great literature isn’t being written these days, but there’s just so much shit to sift through to find it because not enough time has passed for the mediocre stuff to pass into obscurity yet.

>> No.10822616

>>10820832
He is not that good as a critic and you would be better off reading Frank Kermode or Christopher Ricks instead.