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SHAKESPEARE

HAROLD BLOOM

Candle #7:
For The
Shakespeare
Lover

A finalist for the
1998 National
Book Award for
Nonfiction,
Shakespeare: The
Invention of the Human, by Harold
Bloom (Riverhead Books; $35), is the
culmination of a life's work of read-
ing, writing about and teaching
Shakespeare. Bloom, arguably the
greatest literary critic of our time and
the author of the controversial The
Book of J, which attributed the first
books of the Bible to a woman,
insists that Skakespeare not only
invented the English language, but
created human nature as we know it
today. Before Shakespeare, there was
characterization; after Skakespeare,
there were characters, men and
women capable of change, with high-
ly individualized personalities. Bloom
leads us through a comprehensive
reading of every one of Shakespeare's
plays, and in doing so, seeks to
explain why Shakespeare has
remained our most popular and uni-
versal dramatist and how we can bet-
ter understand ourselves through
Shakespeare. Often compared to the
character Falstaff, for whom he has
great affection, Bloom was recently
asked by the New York Times if he

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would have preferred to have lived
during the Elizabethan Age. He
answered in the negative. "Obviously
if one is Jewish," said Bloom, who
grew up in a Yiddish-speaking house-
hold, "it is better to be alive in either
19th- or 20th-century America than
anywhere else in human history. I
will settle for having been born in
1930 in the East Bronx. Transpose
me back to some other period, and
I'm in trouble."

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