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The Point of Criticism
Yes.
Criticism should be conceived as the absolute fulcrum of a revived literary culture, because only it can advance good writing and create new readers, while relegating boilerplate writing to the trash-heap where it belongs.
I would disagree with this to the extent that it ignores criticism as a creative genre, but other than that: yes.
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The Names by Don DeLillo (1982)
The Box Man by Kobo Abe (1973, English 1974)
Head in Flames by Lance Olsen (2009)
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (2006, English 2010)
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas (2006, English 2009)
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