/lit/ - Literature

>>16880696
He was to /lit/ what Terry was to /g/

>>16880696
Based without comparison. Deeply misunderstood, he was even a socialist and feminist but just didn't fall into the french critical studies lies.

>>16880696
A full retard

>>16880696
Anglo shilling hack. Not even a real critic, just a mere essayist.

>>16880720
Any European country has at least two critics better than him. France, Italy, Spain, Germany have dozens of critics better than him.

>>16880720
>>16880716
Go back to read Foucault.

>>16880729
>Foufault
>literary critic

Whatever you make of his criticism or theory of influence, he was an unparalleled genius.

>>16880753
For what exactly?

>>16880712
He was no feminist.
>>16880716
He only went full retard when he refused to put Vladimir Nabokov in his book of genius

>>16880696
why did he read so much

>>16880729
Fuck Foucault too. I only read real critics.

>>16880696
Refuted by the master.

>>16880696
The day he died was the day old /lit died too.

>>16880795
>His book of genius
Who all are there? Is it the Kabbalah shit with 100 writers?

>>16880844
>>16880852
Fucking kek

>>16880696
Paul de man was one of the emblematic characters of the 20th century, compulsive liar, bigamist, convicted of fraud ended his days in the US as a radical college professor AKA 'Boa deconstructor'. in the antisemitic literary criticism paul de man wrote for his uncle henri's magazine during the occupation, he said it would only take a dozen jews writing under aryan pseudonyms in order to irrevocably contaminate the whole of european literature. mimetic panic, were you can't know for sure if you yourself aren't a faker. one of de man's colleagues at yale, harold bloom(self described 'gnostic jew', unable to believe in god after auschwitz) wrote a whole theory of literature based around the anxiety of influence, he's remembered as a traditionalist defender of the western cannon but actually fits in with the late 20th century zeitgeist of irony, subversive quotation, pastiche, etc., next to judith butler, another rebellious talmudist who studied under the yale deconstructionists. the first culture war just like the first gulf war, never took place. It took mass haptic touchscreen feedback to scale what was an academic game of texts into a viable system for the management of populations(thank you mr engelbart!. All of the subtlety was lost on the way though.
>tfw you realize peter thiel and dr karp are the only true revolutionary marxists in america

>>16880859
Yes

>>16880696
A favorite between the ages of 16 and 19, but no longer

>>16880866
That was some pseud tier trash desu senpai.

>>16880795
>He was no feminist.
He supported females, the fact that he didn't fall into dumb feminism is another thing.

>>16880844
>>16880852
He hasn't read enough. Illiterate.

>>16880890
Still has read more than Bloom and Foucault

>>16880905
Basado

>>16880905
>Bloom
No.

Foucault yes, he's an idiot. Just that Spanish idiot who thinks that the nonsense of german philosphy has meaning.

Que no contamine la hispanidad con su basura psedocientifica.

>>16880696
I don't think much about Harold Bloom, but his gushing about the bard made me add shakespeare to my backlog.

>>16880965
If he hasn't read as much as Bloom is because he is younger. Maestro was 50 when he finished the Crítica, while Bloom was 64 when he published The Western Canon.

>>16881013
Imagine speaking seriously about two memes

Dislike faces of this sort. Looks like he's always smelling a fart.

>>16880696
More like, Myold Coom.