Messias by Gore Vidal6/10/2023 Vidal’s literary tastes and judgments, but at least I think I have the right to question his motives. It would be an idle and hopeless job to attempt any discussion of Mr. Vidal has just proven that he has not done more than glance through the book which he attacks with such vehemence (six months, no less, after its publication). Nabokov, precisely, is not in the selection presented in The Olympia Reader and Mr. He writes for instance: “As literature most of the selections are junk, even though the writers include such celebrated contemporary figures as Nabokov….” Stop. Vidal’s fulminations can hardly be taken seriously. Gore Vidal filled an ample portion of the March 31 issue of The New York Review of Books with a vast essay “On Pornography” (presented as being a review of The Olympia Reader) which strikes me as one of the most ungenerous pieces of writing which I have ever read.Ĭonsidered from the viewpoint of criticism, Mr.
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