Volume 26, Number 14 · September 27, 1979
Disappointment
By Richard Gilman, Reply by Frank Kermode
In response to Down There on a Visit
(June 28, 1979)
To the Editors:
While Frank Kermode [NYR, June 28] has every right to describe the book he would like to have written about decadence, he has no right at all to reproach me for not having written it for him.
Richard Gilman
New York City
Frank Kermode replies:
I didn't mean to reproach Mr. Gilman, simply to explain why his book was so disappointing.
