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INTERVIEWER
Is there an ideal audience that you write for?
BELLOW
I have in mind another human being who will understand me. I count on this. Not on perfect understanding, which is Cartesian, but on approximate understanding, which is Jewish. And on a meeting of sympathies, which is human. But I have no ideal reader in my head, no. Let me just say this, too. I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can’t conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.
Find the complete Saul Bellow interview in The Paris Review Interviews, I available now from Picador. |
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| Authors Mentioned |
| T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, E. M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, Albert Camus, Pierre Corneille, Hart Crane, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Walter de la Mare, Jean-Paul Sartre, William Shakespeare, Sophocles, William Wordsworth, W. B. Yeats |
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