Leslie Fiedler Quotes
It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.
Fiedler, Leslie. Conversations with Leslie Fiedler. Edited by Jeffrey J. Folks, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999.
Since all of God’s Truth was in the Bible, any other book was at best unnecessary and at worst blasphemous. The German practice of book burning seems to have started here in Munster. The exact same logic was used by Islamic Caliph Omar I in deciding to burn the great Library of Alexandria. See {627584}
Leslie Aaron Fiedler was an American literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. His work incorporates the application of psychological theories to American literature. Fiedler's most renowned work consists of Love and Death in the American Novel (1960). A retrospective article on Leslie Fiedler in the New York Times Book Review in 1965 referred to Love and Death in the American Novel as "one of the great, essential books on the American imagination . . . an accepted major work." This groundbreaking work views in depth both American literature and character from the time of the American Revolution to the present. From it, there emerges Fiedler's once scandalous—now increasingly accepted—judgement that our literature is incapable of dealing with adult sexuality and is pathologically obsessed with death.
