Gene H. Bell-Villada (born 1941 in Haiti) 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.Bell-Villada was born in Haiti to a Hawaiian mother and a
Euro-American father. Besides Haiti he was raised in Puerto Rico,
Venezuela and Cuba. He wrote of this experience in Overseas American:
Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics.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-born American
writer. Bell-Villada explains the animosity by saying that he himself
is a "lapsed disciple" of Nabokov.
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.Bell-Villada was born in Haiti to a Hawaiian mother and a
Euro-American father. Besides Haiti he was raised in Puerto Rico,
Venezuela and Cuba. He wrote of this experience in Overseas American:
Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics.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-born American
writer. Bell-Villada explains the animosity by saying that he himself
is a "lapsed disciple" of Nabokov.
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