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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.” | 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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