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[quote=Anonymous]Harold Bloom on Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath is a period piece, and inevitably will follow the path of all popular fiction, and will only be read by social anitquarians. An ambitious writer asks to be judged alongside the strongest of his contemporaries. Try to read William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying in conjunction with The Grapes of Wrath. Steinbeck is obliterated, as he is by Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser, Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West and Flannery O'Connor. On Orwell: Orwell, aesthetically considered, is a far better essayist than novelist...What wanes and dies in 1984 is not the best of George Orwell, not the pamphleteer of The Lion and the Unicorn nor the autobiographer of Homage to Catalonia nor the essayist of Shooting an Elephant.[/quote]
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