19. But Epstein was also friends with a group of intellectuals who Bellow increasingly mocked in his fiction: Kramer and Edward Shils.
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@HeerJeet Not sure what you mean by 'survive as fiction'? -
@sonnetlabbe I mean I don't think Bellow or Epstein are writers who will last. Especially afterpeople they wrote about are long forgotten - Show replies
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@HeerJeet Ravelstein as insight into the Chicago neocon moment? -
@delong It's true -- the novels will survive as social history. But they seem more and more minor as fiction. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet This illustrates something I've been thinking: for all their supposed similarities, Roth has many more modes than Bellow. -
@HeerJeet Neither one is a master storyteller per se but Roth's powers of invention > Bellow's. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet I've always loved HG and have never known the gossip behind it. Still don't care. Do even 10% of Bellow's readers care?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Thank you got a fine twitter-read!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet And in "What Kind of Day Did You Have?" Bellow fictionalizes Harold Rosenberg: critics, repeat offenders in Bellow's roman a clefsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@tetzelny We'll have to disagree on this. Felt longer than a month in communist Romania. - Show replies
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