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Is literature somehow more valuable, having an underlying message/reoccurring theme, or can pure prose and plot be just as powerful?

>> No.5690894
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>>5690858
It has to have all of those. It also has to be trascendental. Even if the author don't even want it to trascend (the author's opinion isnt more valuable than yours or mine). Good plot means you're creative and had a great idea; it also means you're a great thinker. Good prose means you developed your idea in the correct field (not cinema, or music, etc) and that you mastered your lenguage. If you do all of that in a refreshing way, taking good care of your selected topics, expanding literary boundaries and also do it a way no one could had you're your way to be national, maybe even universal canon. This is mosly right as opposed as what people being butthurt over no one taking their word of warcraft fanfic seriously may tell you.

>> No.5691734

>>5690894
this is what hipsters actually believe

>> No.5691786

>>5691734
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>> No.5691795

>>5690858
>can pure prose and plot be just as powerful?

How can there be a powerful plot without some underlying theme/message?

Can you give me an example of such a book?

>> No.5691810

>>5691786
so you agree?

>> No.5691816

>>5690858
Grrm is plot, underlying message and, according to some, prose. It's still shit..

>> No.5691821

>>5691810
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