Gene H. Bell-Villada

Gene H. Bell-Villada

Gene H. Bell-Villada is an American literary critic, novelist, translator and memoirist, with strong interests in Latin American Writing, Modernism, and Magic Realism. His works include "The Carlos Chadwick Mystery: A Novel of College Life and Political Terror", the short story collection "The Pianist Who Liked Ayn Rand", and the critical studies "Art for Art's Sake and the Literary Life", "Borges And His Fiction; A Guide To His Mind And Art" and "Garcia Marquez: The Man And His Work". He holds a doctorate from Harvard University and has been a professor at Williams College since 1975.

His literary criticism is notable for its harsh views of Vladimir Nabokov. "Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life" was so negative in its assessment that Publishers Weekly described it as a "bilious analysis" of the Russian writer. Bell-Villada explains the animus by saying that he himself is a "lapsed disciple" of Nabokov.

References

*"Publishers Weekly" review of "Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life," April 22, 1996

External links

* [http://www.amadorbooks.com/authgb.htm] Author Page at Amador Books
* [http://www.williams.edu/CFLang/faculty/bell.html] Williams College Bell-Villada page


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