What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering. (Harold Bloom)

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

Harold Bloom

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