/lit/ - Literature

>"I can't speak. As a teacher, I would write out all my lectures. Without notes, I was lost. One day, I had to talk on Dostoevsky, whom I don't like. He's a journalist: he doesn't create, he hasn't the time. He writes, like Richardson and Rousseau (who inspired him), sentimental literature for young girls ... but which also pleases young boys." —from an interview with Anne Guerin in 1961

>"For me, the main idea of a book lies in its main structural theme, which is a verbal thing, a stylistic phenomenon, just as one can speak of the idea of a musical composition or of a chess problem without any moral or social implications. Of course, there are some good readers who, among the more important matters, are interested in the social and moral ideas of a novel even if the author did not put them there; but alas, it is generally the bad reader whose lazy mind prefers the easy general idea to the difficult specific details of a work of art. This is why young simpletons all over the world love Dostoevsky—because it is so easy and fascinating to discuss mysticism and sin without reading him closely; and that is why my worst students (when I was a university professor) always preferred such second-rate fellows as Faulkner and Camus to any real artist." —from an interview with Associated Rediffusion Television in 1962

Why did Nabokov ACTUALLY hate Faulkner so much?

We all know the famous quote:
>Faulkner, William. Dislike him. Writer of corncobby chronicles. To consider them masterpieces is an absurd delusion. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.

But all it seems to imply is that Nabokov doesn't like his subject matter. Is that 100% his reasoning? Because then it's easy to understand seeing as Nabokov wrote what you could call 'aristocratic' works with aristocratic and upper class characters and Faulkner wrote about down-n-outs, hick country folk and niggers

>>12071955
>anon projects
this is classic

Could you beat him up?