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{{DISPLAYTITLE: | {{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded/''Publishers Weekly'' Currents, March 23, 1965}} | ||
[[Category:Full Text | {{notice|From ''Publishers Weekly'', March 22, 1965 Number 12. Though they are in-process, copyright permissions have not yet been secured for this excerpt. If you are the copyright holder, please contact the [[Gerald R. Lucas|editor]].}} | ||
==Mailer on ''Herzog''== | |||
Midway through explaining his own views as a “moral nihilist” at the March 10 press conference for three authors held during NBA week, novelist [[Norman Mailer]] delivered some pithy comments on ''[[w:Herzog (novel)|Herzog]]'', the novel that had just won the National Book Award, and its author, [[w:Saul Bellow|Saul Bellow]]. “I have great admiration for ''Herzog'' as a novel,” said Mr. Mailer, “but it is not an intellectual book, it has no ideas in it. It has about the same relation to ideas that a cookbook has to good eating. Just about every idea man has ever had is referred to in it. There are all sorts of discussions but absolutely nothing new.” | |||
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==Mailer on Bellow== | |||
What ''Herzog'' does have, in the Mailer view, is “a sense of compassion I haven’t come across in a long time. There is something almost Russian | |||
about ''Herzog'',” Mr. Mailer said. “You have to go back to [[w:Fyodor Dostoevsky|Dostoeyevsky]] to find a parallel, but ''Herzog'' also has so much self-pity. What did impress me about it was that my heart was literally burning as I read it. It might be one of the most important books written in America in years and it might not, because it has mistakes. I do not know. But I do know that I do not see Bellow as lord of the intellectuals. He has the mind of a rather dull college professor who has read too many books and grasped the essence of none of them.” | |||
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