Jealous much, Bret?
[From a question answered by Bret Easton Ellis during his appearance at the Southbank Centre.]
Question: David Foster Wallace – as an American writer, what is your opinion now that he has died?
Answer: Is it too soon? It’s too soon right? Well I don’t rate him. The journalism is pedestrian, the stories scattered and full of that Mid-Western faux-sentimentality and Infinite Jest is unreadable. His life story and his battle with depression however is really quite touching. . . .
[To Mr. Easton Ellis: Infinite Jest is unreadable only if you are intellectually lazy and/or unimaginative, which pretty much describes the typical reader of your work. I guess I'm sentimental enough to believe that you ought not to take cheap fucking shots at the dead. Your response made you sound like a jealous condescending prick.
Sincerely,
A Sentimental Midwestern Blogger
p.s. As a person who battles depression, I can assure you it is anything but touching.]
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5 comments:
Who the hell is Bret EAston Ellis? And why should we care what it thinks?
Jeannie,
He is a well-read American writer, I am sorry to say.
I have enjoyed some of Bret Easton Ellis writing but I have to say I will enjoy it a little less now that I am so in doubt of his intelligence. Now my enjoyment seems like an accident rather than having anything to do with his skill. What a dick.
Is Mr. Ellis still with us?
ZenGato,
Thanks. Obviously I concur.
Ms. Moon,
Yep, unless some crazed DFW fan has taken him out already. Laugh. He's a bit older than I am.
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