/lit/ - Literature

>>3519228
I don't like Gaddis at all but even I must admit Pynchon only wrote one *great* novel (this should be obvious), and three good ones, and two of those (Vineland and Inherent Vice) will probably be written off by most folks interested in serious mature literature for serious mature people such as themselves. I'll entertain myself by watching folks try and guess the third.

Either way this is all pretty silly, the answer to OP's question won't be determined in our lifetimes. Would I vote for Faulkner is prodded? Sure, but you can easily see him falling out of favor in literary circles. I mean OP's assertion that so many critical essays about James have been written recently ignores that earlier in the 20th century there was a fucking shitton of Faulkner criticism.

I don't know, this is silly, crit is silly, who knows whom history will crown in the end pic related.

>>2883387 These guys probably just want a lot of anti-structuralist primitivism stuff that is fluff and no substance.

This. Imagine applying to a hard right Evangelical school that would demand you censor everything they don't agree with and change your message to be in synch with theirs so you just sell dogmatic fluff and no substance. Same thing, just left wing instead of right. Morons are morons.

First exposed to him when I read Kalki when I was 13. I think the man wrote great literature for teenagers but was most lovable for his sheer douchiness. Oh, he was also in Gattaca. At least with Gore Vidal you always got a show, you were always entertained, maybe a little offended, perhaps a tad titillated. Really, what more can you ask of a man?