Harold Bloom Talks About Literature, Judaism, and the Almighty – Tablet Magazine

Harold Bloom sobre Cortázar. De la crítica literaria al SIDA (Photo credit: Scemoso)

Harold Bloom Talks About Literature, Judaism, and the Almighty – Tablet Magazine:


 "“You should hear him talk to a cabdriver,” one of Bloom’s ex-students told me. Bloom thrives on personal contact, and his conversation is full of affectionate verbal squeezes: His Yale colleague Geoffrey Hartman, like Bloom a pioneering critic of Romanticism, is the “Ayatollah Hartmeini”; John Ashbery, the poet, is always “the noble Ashbery.” Every male under 60 is addressed as “young man”; every woman, of whatever age, as “my dear.” “Kinderlach,” Bloom will say to a group of middle-aged friends, with genuine, surprised tenderness, “you astonish me always.”"

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