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
novelists
One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.
telling-the-truth assignments
My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
i-can one-thing ifs
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.
sex thinking literature
I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.
book tough-times pay
I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.
thinking critics ask-me
When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.
camille heard
I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.
writing enemy gave-up
I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.
historical important criticism
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
depressing culture-religion criticism
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.
fiction method certain
The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.
black changed situation
The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.
art thinking dying
The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
comic stills
Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.