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Every time a character in the novel says something erudite or references another work of literature, it's really just the author showing off.

>> No.18623450

>>18623447
who cares.

>> No.18623465

>>18623447
No. It's him linking his work to the broader canon, part of the overall Western psyche. At worst it's a gift to make his reader feel clever and well read for getting it. Either way, if towelhead said what OP said, it doesn't surprise me. Bloke looked like a chick with stubble.

>> No.18623469

>>18623447
If pop-fiction referenced literature more, maybe we'd have normalfags actually reading literature

>> No.18623472

>>18623465
WLU
Western Literary Universe

>> No.18623491

>>18623447
Would it mean that characters should be written possessing kind of knowledge that author himself doesn't have? I mean nobody questions a writer who describes a mathematics phd even if he himself knows nothing about advanced math, so would it be wrong for me, someone who never read any Shakespeare, to write a story about obsessive Shakespeare fan?

>> No.18623545

>>18623450
/thread

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>>18623545

>> No.18623966

Is that Bakker or Wallace?

>> No.18623969

>>18623447
I hate it so much. One of the reasons why I dont read anything from Haruki Murakami anymore

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>19th century writers using French words to show everyone they sipped coffee in Paris and thus are cultured elite.

>> No.18624093

>>18623447
The only author who does this well is Sebald.