[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 405 KB, 801x402, hack_trilogy.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
11259538 No.11259538 [Reply] [Original]

Is there discernible talent?

>> No.11259624

>>11259538
lol theres gas in his face

>> No.11260158

>>11259538
I think Gertrude Stein was very talented

>> No.11260183
File: 19 KB, 329x274, fuckwhitepeople.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
11260183

>>11259538
everyone is talented in there own way :)

>> No.11260188

>>11259538
god no / no / sometimes

>> No.11261698

no they are memes

>> No.11261700

>>11259538
Gass and Vollman are good, McElroy not so much.
>>11260188
>>11261698
back to plebbit

>> No.11261717

>>11261700
that internet site actually praises gass and vollman while deriding mcelroy

>> No.11261884

I'm bad with names.
who are they

>> No.11262781

>>11261884
vollman, mcelroy, gass

>> No.11262924
File: 111 KB, 800x639, GassGTFOThisIsMyOfficePleb.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
11262924

>>11259538
I mean considering that you have The Unabomber, Gertrude Stein, and the Gassman himself there then most definitely yes.

>> No.11262936

>>11262924
Gass is mysantropy incarnated

>> No.11262954
File: 35 KB, 341x354, 1491054655959.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
11262954

>/lit/ doesn't like Vollman

>> No.11263025

>>11262936
He's a boomer, not a misanthrope. His novels are attempts at ironically redeeming boomer liberalism with the "le hateful misanthrope seduces you with overwrought sentences that only a grad student could love."

>> No.11264656
File: 115 KB, 1628x915, GassClass.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
11264656

>>11262936
>>11263025
Still great.

>> No.11265313

Gass is a product of his generation, one that spit in the face of a civilization, their own, that is currently, to no surprise, collapsing; he's the worst of these postmodern boomer writers though. There's nothing redeeming in The Tunnel, it's a disgrace to literature and emblematic of the selfish and destructive boomer.

He squandered his talent. He could have spend those years creating something beautiful and inspiring, but instead, in typical transgressive boomer fashion, he wrote something that is depressing and angry and untimely forgettable. Squandered time and talent.

>> No.11265317

>>11265313
pls mr writer stop making me feel bad things I'm sad :(

>> No.11266072

>>11265317
Gass is the Daniel Cohn-Bendit of literature.

Just read Celine or Roth.