Brodkey's discussion of his illness in the press was "a matter of manipulative hucksterism, of mendacious self-propaganda and cruel assertion of artistic privilege, whereby death is made a matter of public relations." In an essay in The New Republic, the poet Richard Howard wrote that Mr. His announcement drew criticism because it implied that the AIDS virus had remained dormant far longer than medical experts think is possible. Brodkey announced in the pages of The New Yorker, in an article titled "To My Readers," that he had AIDS as a result of homosexual relationships, which he said "took place largely in the 1960's." Brodkey's short stories an "endless kvetch." Brodkey was a 1988 review in Kirkus Reviews, which called Mr. The critic Harold Bloom called him "an American Proust" and said he was "unparalleled in American prose fiction since the death of William Faulkner." But a mark of the division of opinion about Mr. Brodkey, a writer of lush, lyric and serpentine prose, was a charismatic and stormy figure in literary circles. The cause was AIDS, said his wife, Ellen Schwamm. Harold Brodkey, a novelist, short-story writer and essayist known almost as much for his failure to publish as for the books he eventually did publish, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan. Harold Brodkey, 65, New Yorker Writer And Novelist, Dies of Illness HeWrote About
Harold Brodkey, born Aaron Roy Weintraub (Octoborn in Staunton, Illinois – JanuManhattan) was an American writer, and novelist. He was named after his biological grandfather, who died the year before he was born (Aaron Weintrub).
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