Martedì 11 Novembre 2003

Mi ricorda qualcuno

Neal Pollack, stroncato dal New York Times, non la prende bene:

Unlike David Kamp, I’m not a practitioner of what I like to call “snark,” a word fungus that has completely destroyed the once-noble profession of book reviewing. A review is snarky by definition if it criticizes something written by me or by my friends, and particularly if it refers to me as “an ordinary humor dork, yet another doughy, 35-ish white man with a goatee and thinning hair.” Reviews should only praise books in general, and should always give a flattering impression of the writer’s appearance in particular. Would the great Lionel Trilling, whose wife Diana used to provide me with a weekly hummer, ever have referred to, say, John O’Hara as a “doughy 35-ish white man?” I think not. These are books we’re writing here, people! Sacred objects of a bygone age! Books! How dare you criticize me, David Kamp? Have you no shame, man? Have you no respect for the temple of literature?

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Commenti su: Mi ricorda qualcuno

Goes to show. everything is for someone. and why criticise. Soggettivo.… tutto è soggettivo. The new york times is not God. Not in my world. I am God in my world. quindi I decide. Si alle opinioni, si alla voglia di confrontarsi… in continuazione. SI. Ma alla fine siamo noi a dover decidere a dover dare un opinione per noi. Il resto non conta un accidente.

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