Gore Vidal

joanna bujes joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com
Tue May 7 10:42:45 PDT 2002


At 12:24 PM 05/07/2002 -0400, Michael P wrote:
>Ah but Joanna, whose to say that Gore Vidal doesn't sympathize with
>Berlusconi's nativist views? You remember his piece in The Natin in the
>80's on
>the "Yellow Peril, " saying that the USSRand the USA ought to form
>annalliance
>against the Asiatic Hordes?

Well, he always struck me as a very well educated, belle-lettres elitist. He has a nice Wildean wit: "Nowadays the only thing that doesn't change is the avant garde!"....but I have yet to make it through one of his novels.

His political commentary is ok. I mean his criticism of the U.S. is certainly on target; but, after that, I don't know what there is to say. His "socialism" seems to stop short at rubbing elbows with the laboring classes.

Joanna



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