and it's a good movie, too.

@leeharvey,

The way Bloom describes books as "perfect" and "ultimate" captures my distaste for his way of reading. What does it say about a critical model when a book can be too complex and sprawling for it? Once Bloom labels a book "perfect," what else can we say about it? And isn't a large part of the pleasure that accompanies…

I found American Pastoral fascinating precisely because of the the gap between the Swede we meet in the opening scenes and the character that Zuckerman imagines during the last 4/5 of the book. Remember, the novel's main plot isn't "real" in the way that those opening scenes— it's a projection crafted by Zuckerman in…