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http://flavorwire.com/188138/the-30-harshest-author-on-author-insults-in-history?all=1

My favourite is this one

>4. Mark Twain on Jane Austen (1898)

“I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”

>> No.2398575

oh hey it's this thread

again

the wheel of fate spins round and round; every thread that once was will be again

>> No.2398577

>>2398573

Ahh, Mark, he's a bro, isn't he? =]

>> No.2398581

Clemens sure got ornery in his old age

>> No.2398607

It is weird seeing your favorite writers/thinkers criticize your other favorite writers/thinkers. The one that really stood out was the Woolf diss on Joyce.

>“[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.”

I also read somewhere that Nietzsche liked Dante but now i see him disliking that as well. The guy is just a bag of fun.

>> No.2398609

>>2398575
Is that Dunces reference?

>> No.2398628

>>2398575
Welcome to 4chan bro, every repost is a repost of a repost

>> No.2398635

>>2398607
Woolf was spot on, man.

>> No.2398661

mark twain confirmed for mad

>> No.2398664
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2398664

I'm a little surprised Tom Wolfe's feud with John Irving, John Updike and Norman Mailer wasn't mentioned.

>Updike on Wolfe: (A Man in Full) is entertainment, not literature, even literature in a modest aspirant form.“

>Mailer on Wolfe: “At certain points, reading the work can even be said to resemble the act of making love to a three-hundred-pound woman. Once she gets on top, it’s over. Fall in love, or be asphyxiated.”

>Irving on Wolfe: "He’s a journalist … he can’t create a character. He can’t create a situation.”

>> No.2398680

>>2398664
Wow those are harsh.

>> No.2398692

>mfw I can't handle all these sick burns

ah, if only I lived back then so that I could see these perspectives first hand and didn't have to rely on the opinions of faggots who look on this shit with rose-colored shades

>> No.2398695

>>2398680
They're so jelly of the Wolfe.

>> No.2398698

>>2398692

Go watch Midnight in Paris anon, I'm sure you will enjoy it.

>> No.2398699

>>2398692
At least Bloom is still alive.