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As this book [https://www.amazon.com/Gatekeepers-Emergence-World-Literature-1960s/dp/019027414X] points out, Kakutani had a huge negative influence on the development of World Literature. Everything had to be "magic realism" for her, on the template of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, whom she didn't even read until after he won the Nobel Prize. Her idea of World Literature was someone with a foreign name, educated at an American university, writing in English. She did not read any foreign languages.