tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post116006087927093552..comments2024-03-28T22:51:28.222+05:30Comments on The Middle Stage: Saul Bellow and The Republic of LettersChandrahashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07483080477755487202noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-1160707121565209302006-10-13T08:08:00.000+05:302006-10-13T08:08:00.000+05:30Ah, I see.Ah, I see.Chandrahashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07483080477755487202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-1160530141234432582006-10-11T06:59:00.000+05:302006-10-11T06:59:00.000+05:30chandrahas, nothing negative about my observation....chandrahas, nothing negative about my observation.i believe that what causes a writer to be read and get noticed is his horse vision - his conviction that he has hit the nail on the head, and his felicity of expression which enables him to get his blinkered vision across effectively. a person with a comprehensive vision of life remains on the second rung, unless of course, he is some one like shakespeare who is the rarest of phenomena.<BR/>i stick to my guns. every work is open ended. how else do you explain a writer who is a rage in his time sinks into oblivion in the next and the next - - . or how ceratin writers who remain nonentities for generations resurface in another age where they even become cannonical?<BR/>what is cannonical for one age can be insignificant to another. what is cannonical to one group can be insignificant to another contempory group.<BR/>connonicity is a high brow, snobbish concept,a tool of hegemonykochuthresiamma p .jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01320086308375078739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-1160500733422359982006-10-10T22:48:00.000+05:302006-10-10T22:48:00.000+05:30Kochuthresiamma PJ - I think you are construing my...Kochuthresiamma PJ - I think you are construing my words more negatively than I intended. <BR/><BR/>"They don't accept...can't digest..." - you seem to suggest that writers are somehow short-sighted or intolerant in their views, when my sense is that they usually have sharper views, stronger likes and dislikes, than the general reader.<BR/><BR/>I would like to hear you make a case for how "nothing is canonical", if you believe that to be so. Equally, while I don't deny that each work of art elicits different responses from individuals, the "open-endedness" of the work of art you speak of is not infinite, and it is possible to distinguish good interpretations from bad ones.Chandrahashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07483080477755487202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-1160481215961756932006-10-10T17:23:00.000+05:302006-10-10T17:23:00.000+05:30Thank you so much for this blog. I found you throu...Thank you so much for this blog. I found you through another blog and will come back as often as I can. It is always a pleasure to read a reader. And it helps me to cheat too, by going directly to the books others have had time to enjoy. You also remind me of another person who writes the same style of blog, but in French.Brazenheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12125096095509060689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-1160460217598310072006-10-10T11:33:00.000+05:302006-10-10T11:33:00.000+05:30glad i chanced upon your blogsite - got introduced...glad i chanced upon your blogsite - got introduced to tlm. thanks.<BR/><BR/>yes. u r right. every write has his views about what the best writing is. they dont accept that nothing is cannonical. they cant digest the concept of open endedness of a work of art and the variety of the recepients at the reader counter.kochuthresiamma p .jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01320086308375078739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-1160082681098529472006-10-06T02:41:00.000+05:302006-10-06T02:41:00.000+05:30That essay on Sebald was very good. thanks. I have...That essay on Sebald was very good. thanks. I have been reading him on and off for the last one year now and I really wanted to know what readers more well informed and more intelligent than me thought of him. I thought I had read everything about him on the net.<BR/><BR/>I recently read another excellent essay on him by susan sontag ("a mind in mourning") which was also very good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com