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+{{notice|From ''Publishers Weekly'', March 22, 1965 Number 12}}
+==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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-From ''Publishers Weekly'', March 22, 1965 Number 12{{aade-sm}}
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-MAILER ON “HERZOG”
-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 Dostoeyevsky|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 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 rater dull college professor who has read too many books and grasped the essence of none of them.”
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