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Anonymous Tue Sep 26 23:07:33 2017 No.10075562 [Reply] [Original]

Will he take back what he said about Infinite Jest on his deathbed?

What will his last words be?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 26 23:10:29 2017 No.10075567 >>10075562 He can't think He can't breathe No discernible life

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 26 23:12:59 2017 No.10075573 >>10075567 clever

Anonymous Tue Sep 26 23:18:58 2017 No.10075596

>>10075562
I really believe that there are two reasons why Bloom said that about IJ:

1. DFW shits on him in the book.

2. Bloom actually takes his role seriously as a literary critic and has convinced himself that he needs to shit on younger writers because that's what every critic in the tradition has done. Has Bloom ever praised any writer born past 1950? This is a man who compared himself to Milton's Satan because of his perception of his influence on his generation's novelists.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 26 23:37:01 2017 No.10075646 >>10075562 he already said in some interview that he wants some poem to be his last thought/words 'i look back upon the places ive been and can no longer go' or something like that

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 26 23:38:50 2017 No.10075652 >>10075562 "I wish I had read Gene Wolfe"

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 26 23:46:41 2017 No.10075675 >>10075562 >At least DFW isn't where I'm going

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 26 23:47:37 2017 No.10075678 >>10075646 thanks for the knowledgeable insight mayne

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 26 23:52:39 2017 No.10075694 >>10075562 What did he say?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 00:03:51 2017 No.10075724 >>10075694 he said "no discreditably talent" or something like that

Anonymous Wed Sep 27 00:05:49 2017 No.10075730
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>>10075562
>*cough cough* s-show.....nomercy *wheeze*....to the goyim....he *cough* is an animal....in h-human *wheeze* form.....and e-exists....exists only.....to serve us *cough*....
>*dies*

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 00:09:34 2017 No.10075742 >>10075596 >Has Bloom ever praised any writer born past 1950? Kushner? That's about it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 02:34:05 2017 No.10076018 File: 523 KB, 1334x750, E9AD04FB-0910-410E-B51E-BF0F5F95D6BF.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Whatever he says is okay as long as it's not this: "And it IS a good book, it's a VERY good book."

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 02:42:30 2017 No.10076043 I can't tell if /lit/ really likes Harold Bloom or if its just a meme.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 02:44:39 2017 No.10076046 >>10076043 His Western Canon list is pretty spot on

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 02:46:49 2017 No.10076050 >>10075730 DELET

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 03:10:51 2017 No.10076095 >Will he take back what he said about Infinite Jest on his deathbed? No. He was right.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 03:12:52 2017 No.10076100 I was all set to read IJ until Bloom claimed the author had no discernible talent. Now I'm skipping it and going straight to Dante.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 03:21:52 2017 No.10076114 >>10076095 He went to far when he said Stephan King was better

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 03:22:57 2017 No.10076115 >>10076100 Its a fun book. Its not Joyce. Everyone should still read it

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 04:40:36 2017 No.10076227 File: 25 KB, 620x413, paul_muldoon_050614.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10075596 >Has Bloom ever praised any writer born past 1950? He did, but /lit/ manages to know even less about poetry than about novels.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 04:59:56 2017 No.10076253 >>10075646 You mean the Housman poem «Into my heart an air that kills»

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 05:17:40 2017 No.10076277 >>10076227 >born 1951 Pttth

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 08:39:56 2017 No.10076655 >>10075730 Kys my man, it's not the jews fault they write well

Anonymous Wed Sep 27 09:36:07 2017 No.10076771

>>10075562
>It’s all a clear indication, Bloom notes, of the decline of literary standards. He was upset in 2003 when the National Book Award gave a special award to Stephen King. “But Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left. [Wallace] seems to have been a very sincere and troubled person, but that doesn’t mean I have to endure reading him. I even resented the use of the term from Shakespeare, when Hamlet calls the king’s jester Yorick, ‘a fellow of infinite jest.’

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 09:41:42 2017 No.10076796 >>10076043 I own a few of his books, I like him. Not a giant fanboy or anything though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 10:37:47 2017 No.10076944 he was right though, DFW was on so many anti-depressants he was like a zombie, his writing had no emotion

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