Has anyone here read Harold Bloom's novel?

Has anyone here read Harold Bloom's novel?

Does it have any discernible talent?

Harold Bloom's novel is the greatest reason why I don't listen to him

The opinion of "critics" who have never written a good work is completely worthless.

So the only critic you listen to is Susan Sontag?

Does one truly need to be a good creator to be a "good" critic? I would think that the quality/appeal of a critic comes more from what knowledge of the field they bring and how they can broaden the reading of a work.

I don't need to have released an album to know when a song is "bad" or "good" or to recommend that song to friends. I don't see why a critic HAS to be an author also.

(not true, by the way)

Who said Susan Sontag wrote a good book?

Which part are you saying is untrue?

An author's criticism would only be valuable to authors.
A reader's criticism is valuable to readers.

You can make good points and be a terrible writer at the same time. Just be conscious that you are bad, how and why.

Have you written "a good work?"

what are some critics that have god tier fiction novels?

Oscar Wilde

how about contemporary ones? or after ww2

Jonathan Lethem and Zadie Smith write critical essays for the New Yorker and other publications and both are accomplished authors of fiction.

yes, not really

pseud

thanks

It's a cool idea though.

Isn't it just an embarrassing fanfic of The Voyage to Arcturus?

Yup.

Plenty of good writers have shit opinions. Look at Tolstoi and his hatred of Shakespeare for not being moral enough.
...Nabokov.
Yup.

Is there a PDF for this book?

It's neither on Bibliotik nor LibGen.