An American Dream Expanded/Publishers Weekly Currents, March 23, 1965

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From Publishers Weekly, March 22, 1965 Number 12

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An American Dream Expanded.

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 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.”