Gore Vidal Quote

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 (ed. Vintage, 2002) - ISBN: 9781400032990

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.