Leslie Fiedler
Leslie Fiedler
Leslie Aaron Fiedlerwas an American literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. His work also involves application of psychological theories to American literature. His most cited work is Love and Death in the American Novel...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth8 March 1917
CountryUnited States of America
gertrude married frail
Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
hands interesting needs
Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?
august light rooms
Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.
book gray-area novel
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
people engagement bills
I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.
funny thinking patterns
I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.
writing men years
I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.
past magic lines
Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.
next poet middle
Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.
views female point-of-view
Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.
kings people remember
When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.
book black female
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.
funny critics
It's funny to be a critic.
advice my-friends
Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.