/lit/ - Literature

>>11108606
Hating Eliot comes entirely from one person and that person is also a massive Pessoa shill, Which is extremely ironic, given he accuses Eliot of being bombastic.

>>11108435
Bloom does not like Eliot, because Eliot saw through his weak method of criticism before Bloom was even born.

>I'm reminded of a moment in T. S. Eliot's “The Perfect Critic” (from The Sacred Wood) wherein he quotes some words of Arthur Symons's comments on Cleopatra: “In her last days Cleopatra touches a certain elevation . . . she would die a thousand times, rather than live to be a mockery and scorn in men's mouths . . . she is a woman to the last . . . the play ends with a touch of grave pity . . . ” “What, we ask, is this for?” asks Eliot and decides that it was an instance of “Mr. Symons . . . living through the play as one might live it through in the theater; recounting, commenting.” For Eliot, the result was less than satisfactory, and it would be of interest to hear what he might say about Bloom's way of living through the play. Of course Bloom is on record as calling Eliot “one of the worst critics of the twentieth century.”

bow down

Conrad, Joseph. A favorite between the ages of 8 and 14. Essentially a writer for very young people. Certainly inferior to Hemingway and Wells. Intolerable souvenir-shop style, romanticist clichés. Nothing I would care to have written myself. In mentality and emotion, hopelessly juvenile. Romantic in the large sense. Slightly bogus.

>>10463027
>creative writers
any faggot who becomes too enamoured with archetypes and all that shit is bound to end as hesse 2.0

A bit reaching to classify Nabokov as the same kind of right winger as Eliot or Pound, and not only because he despised the work of those two.

>lessons
t. school of resentment

>>10299021
Lovercraft was a turgid georgian poet who was kind enough to apply that talent to fiction instead.
>anime reaction pic
>calls anyone subhuman
hats off, brother kekistani

And I am heavily amused by the notion that only leftists despise didacticist hacks like Solzhenitsin.

I side with the corn god ofc.

Eh, can't blame him, what is there to do when you have it all and all that's left to do is paying prostitutes to rim you after you had a massive plate of curry for dinner.

Sure, go for it, just keep in mind that when people here talk about him as the greatest writer of the 21st century, they don't mean “he's the greatest writer of the 21st century, his writing is so skillfull,” they mean “he's the greatest writer of the 21st century because I agree with him.”

You don't know what free verse is and think like a self help book. Fuck off retard.

Shoo, corncobber.

>no Sartre
>no Murakami
>no Salinger
>no Delilo
>the only instance of G*rman Coelho is his only passable book, ie. Glass Bead Game
>the genreshit included is in the boundaries of tastefulness

The only people who might have issues with this chart are redditors mad that Reddit-22, Orwell (aka. the closest thing to a work of political philosophy they will read in their entire lives) and the garbage I greentexted didn't make it.

see:>>9545556

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>>6857372
>I like my stories to have messages in them

>not reading purely for aesthetic pleasure

>>6831657
>/lit/. Finest artists in recent years. Lucid. Intense shitposters
>The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra is the second greatest piece of 21st century prose.
>The Legacy of Totalitarianism: Miami is the third greatest piece of 21st century prose.
>>The Legacy of Totalitarianism: Tokyo Drift is the greatest piece of 21st century prose.

>>6782213
only when combined with the cornfather, a coup de grace

>>6675642

>>6609803
>/lit/
>reading

your kind is not welcome here