Observers often identified Bloom with deconstruction, but he never admitted to sharing more than a few ideas with deconstructionists. He told Robert Moynihan in 1983, "What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology ... There is no escape, there is simply the given, and there is nothing that we can do." Excerpted from "Interview: Harold Bloom interviewed by Robert Moynihan" Diacritics : A Review of Contemporary Criticism vol. 13 , No. 3 (Fall, 1983), pp. 57–68.
