May 6th, 2009 / 1:32 pm
 Power Quote

Power Quote: One of Harold Bloom’s Hands Clapping Edition

This one’s for my homies who asked for a more detailed commentary on Dickens/Bloom that I don’t have time to offer up this week.

One of the blessings of Dickens’s powerful influence on Kafka is the altogether Borgesian impact of Kafka on our understanding of Dickens.

– The Western Canon, “The Canonical Novel: Dickens’s Bleak House and George Eliot’s Middlemarch“

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6 Comments

  1. May 6th, 2009 / 6:39 pm Nathan (Nate) Tyree—

      That is great. I have to read Bloom’s book now. I wonder, have you read The Invention of the Human (one of Bloom’s Shakespeare books)? It is a massive read.

  2. May 6th, 2009 / 2:39 pm Nathan (Nate) Tyree—

      That is great. I have to read Bloom’s book now. I wonder, have you read The Invention of the Human (one of Bloom’s Shakespeare books)? It is a massive read.

  3. May 6th, 2009 / 6:46 pm matthewsavoca—

      this is where is really hurts a simple peon like me to not have even an undergrad degree in english

  4. May 6th, 2009 / 2:46 pm matthewsavoca—

      this is where is really hurts a simple peon like me to not have even an undergrad degree in english

  5. May 6th, 2009 / 7:06 pm davidpeak—

      dickens loved peons

  6. May 6th, 2009 / 3:06 pm davidpeak—

      dickens loved peons