Saturday, March 08, 2008
Happy Birthday, Leslie Fiedler!
The Writer's Almanac from American Public Media: "It's the birthday of the literary critic Leslie Fiedler, (books by this author) born in Newark, New Jersey (1917). He's best known for his book Love and Death in the American Novel (1960). He believed that the great theme of American literature was the search for identity. He said, 'Americans have no real identity. We're all ... uprooted people who come from elsewhere.'"
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And you own a signed copy of LOVE & DEATH IN THE AMERICAN NOVEL. I consider Fiedler's work one of the great books of American literary criticism. They'll be reading it 100 years from now.
George Kelley
One of my prized possessions!
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