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CRITICIZING THE CRITIC / Once in a while a gentle reader takes it upon himself to remind me that our problems are not unique but universal. *The misunderstood and rejected writerfor instance is an ubiquitous presencein the literature of all nations. Homer, it is said, was driven out by the very same seven villages that claimed to be his birthplace. Dante lived in exile. So did Joyce, Mann and Nabokov. Tolstoy was excommunicated. I could go on…*If we are a people like any other people, I challenge you to name a single nation that after 600 years of degradation experienced a series of massacres followed by genocide. Instead of enhancing our solidarity these tragic experiences appear to have had had the opposite effect. *Under the sultans in the Ottoman Empire we produced giants like Baronian, Odian, and Zarian.Under our own bosses, bishops and benefactors not even a midget, only a handful of academics whose #1 concern is #1. Explain that if you can, because I can’t!
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