I don't know if anybody combines sheer brilliance with unbelievable obtuseness in quite the way Hugh Kenner does.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Shrewd observation, but what triggered your thought?
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Replying to @Kadzis
Re-reading The Pound Era & reviewing the Davenport/Kenner letters. Kenner's handling of Pound's anti-Semitism is really inadequate and hard to excuse because Kenner is so smart on so many other things.
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I think that's basically right (although Kenner didn't "start off" as a Catholic but converted in 1964 -- but he was definitely a Catholic fellow traveller from early on).
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Replying to @HeerJeet
A footnote --> Kenner's Flaubert, Joyce, and Beckett: The Stoic Comedians + Davenport and Laughlin: Selected Letters are out of the box and smart -- if and when you get a chance.
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Yes, great books, both. The Kenner/Davenport team-up in The Counterfeiters is also fantastic.
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I would love a copy of that letter. Trudeau and Kenner became friends at summer camp in 1940. It was Trudeau who introduced Kenner to French poetry.
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