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>all Americans hate reading Walt Whitman and Herman Melville
>all Austrains hate reading Thomas Bernhard
>all Canadians hate reading Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood
>all Englishman hate reading Chaucer and Shakespeare
>all Frenchmen hate reading Proust and Victor Hugo
>all Irishman hate reading Joyce
>all Russians hate reading Tolstoy and Dostoevsky

Why is any great author's work only appreciated by people not where they're from?

>> No.15671118

> >all Americans hate reading Walt Whitman and Herman Melville
That's not true at all.

>> No.15671130

>>15671109
>all Irishman hate reading Joyce
They celebrate Bloomsday, a day where they go out on the streets and read Ulysses...

>> No.15671136

>>15671109
>all Frenchmen hate reading Proust and Victor Hugo
absolutely false

>> No.15671144

>>15671130

No, Bloomsday is for tourists. The Irish just host it because it helps make them $$$$$$.

>> No.15671147

What a retarded thread.

>> No.15671150

>>15671147
Kill yourself

>> No.15671153

>>15671109
If by "all" you mean "all the plebs" then you're right.

>> No.15671156

>>15671118

Think back to your highschool class. Did anyone like reading that faggy shit? No.

>>15671136

I've talked with actual French people. Proust is absolute torture for them, and Hugo is regarded as nothing more than pulpy garbage for children.

>> No.15671162

>>15671109
>All peruvians hate Mario Vargas Llosa
there are many reasons for people hating a writer, specially if for his politics and his presence on culture

>> No.15671285

>>15671109
the answer is obvious you dumb frog: everyone is forced to read these works in highschool, at an age where most people are too stupid to read serious books and get frustrated if they're forced to do it. So then they just hate them for the rest of their life

>> No.15671365

>>15671156
That people don't enjoy reading in highschool is the fault of the schools/ teachers. Has nothing to do with the authors.
And you little story about talking to a few French people doesn't mean or represent anything.

>> No.15671366

>>15671109
It's because you're forced to read it in highschool.

The single thing highschool actually does well is destroying young people's enthusiasm for whatever is on the syllabus.

>> No.15671472

>>15671153
Based
>>15671285
>>15671365
>>15671366
Cringe
what the fuck is wrong with this reddit-tier posts?

>> No.15671477

>>15671156
>Force 15 year olds to read Moby Dick
>They hate it
Go fucking figure

>> No.15671486

>>15671472
>based
>cringe
>complains about post quality

>> No.15671493

>>15671162
His politics are based though, only whiny leftist complain

>> No.15671505

>>15671109

>all Americans hate reading Walt Whitman and Herman Melville

What the fuck are you talking about

>> No.15671605

>>15671493
>only whiny leftists complain
the conservative/reactionary factions hate him even more for supporting many centre-left governments

>> No.15671664

>>15671156
Choisis mieux les personnes avec lesquelles tu passes ton temps.

>> No.15671677

>>15671109
>all Frenchmen hate reading Proust and Victor Hugo
Weird because I just checked Amazon France's reviews section of Les Misérables and À la recherche du temps perdu and it's filled of positive reviews from French people. The general consensus in the French readership is a positive one, so where are all these haters you speak of?