“[W]hen I think about the [literary] critics I love the most, they’re not necessarily the ones I agree with, they’re the ones I’d like to date. I argue with them, but when they’re gone, their music is still bopping around in my brain. Many years ago, Susan Sontag, in ‘Against Interpretation,’ argued for ‘an erotics of art.’ Is it time now for an erotics of criticism? Instead of bemoaning the decline of literature, should we be doing a better job of showing people what they’re missing: the excitement of unexpected insights, the thrill of new voices, the sex of ideas?”
Será? Bem, de qualquer modo, está interessante este debate entre dois resenhistas da Salon sobre o livro The Death of the Critic, de Ronan McDonald. Eles vão além do simples “blogues e resenhas da Amazon estão matando a crítica”.
[PS. Essa música, Smooth Operator, tem um dos versos de letra mais peculiares: "He moves in space with minimum waste and maximum joy"]
