/lit/ - Literature

>>10872110

I dislike him but you really don't understand how bad Kauer if you think she's on a level with Bukowski.

Bukowski's work at least has all the structural elements of a narrative. They have beginnings, middles, ends, they have characters and they develop themes, they have a particular style they make sentence to sentence, even if this is all done poorly or to ignoble ends.

Kauer's poems aren't even really poems. They are short, absolutely generic utterances accompanied by scribbles. There is no compression of meaning, no skillfull use of the musical qualities of language, no use of the line to pace the reading in interesting ways. At best, they contain a single literary device.

>>9897433

Because the point of those works are the things the author-insert is visiting. The works usually serve as a kind of argument for or explication of ideas. They are observers and questioners, not central figures.

With fanfics the point is a certain cathartic/orgasmic stimulation the reader/author is getting from the plot. It's wholly lower ego, libido stuff. They assume the center or important roles in the plot.

It's the difference between a somebody showing you their rack of barbells and somebody showing you a rack of sex toys.

>>4944336
So you're willing to say Chaucer is shitty because you need need to learn about older English and some history to understand what's happening in the Canterbury Tales?