One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows itself capable of accomodating one's love; and jealously, because it can become the image of one's limitations in time and space, and yet can give the Proustian blessing of more life.

Harold Bloom


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The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

Harold Bloom


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(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.

Harold Bloom

Mots clés religion weather wallace-stevens



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(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God.

Harold Bloom

Mots clés poetry god religion weather wallace-stevens



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Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy.

Harold Bloom

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We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.

Harold Bloom

Mots clés reading books books-reading



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[José] Saramago for the last 25 years stood his own with any novelist of the Western world [..] He was the equal of Philip Roth, Gunther Grass, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. His genius was remarkably versatile — he was at once a great comic and a writer of shocking earnestness and grim poignancy. It is hard to believe he will not survive.

Harold Bloom

Mots clés obituary jose-saramago



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If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation.

Harold Bloom


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We'll try this first. If it doesn't work, we'll try something else. That's life, isn't it?

Harold Bloom


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Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

Harold Bloom

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