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[Anonymous No.20254661]

>Cormac McCarthy (from a New York Times interview): Proust and Henry James don’t make the cut. “I don’t understand them,” he says. “To me, that’s not literature. A lot of writers who are considered good I consider strange."
Wow, this guy is a dullard. This guy is who mutts champion as a great? Very sad.

[Anonymous No.20254674]

Judgebros

[Anonymous No.20254767]

>>20254661
James does look a bit like the judge, doesn’t he?

[Anonymous No.20254772]

>>20254661
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)00:42:06 No.20251264▶>>20251283 >>20252012 >>20252175
What the fuck was he thinking?
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)00:48:22 No.20251283▶
>>20251264 (OP)
You could say that about his entire career
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)05:02:58 No.20252012▶
>>20251264 (OP)
the dark tower the dark tower
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)05:40:58 No.20252156▶>>20252344
He got knocked retarded by a van after years of knocking himself retarded with coke and booze. After book four the series goes completely to shit and it was honestly pretty dumb even before that.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)05:47:02 No.20252175▶
>>20251264 (OP)
no idea but I can't help but admire it a bit just because of how bizarre it is. Even if it's dumb.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)06:20:47 No.20252344▶
>>20252156
Perfectly put. Book 4 is the apex, the rest is mediocre. That van really fucked him up.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)09:44:44 No.20253175▶
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)10:18:40 No.20253316▶
Book 1 was really good
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)16:47:30 No.20254759▶
I like the very ending of Dark Tower otherwise yes book 4 was the last good one.
I would say Gunslinger is exceptionally good and different from a lot that I've read. It's standalone in a way.>>20254674
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[Anonymous No.20255272]

>>20254661
To be fair Proust insists on himself.

[Anonymous No.20256759]

>>20255272
What does that mean?

[Anonymous No.20256778]

>>20254661
We have this thread every week.

[Anonymous No.20256799]

Why is this surprising? McCarthy also says he prefers the company of scientists to any other group of people. He's quite clearly a very modernist kind of guy despite his often Biblical idiosyncratic prose.

[Anonymous No.20256806]

“The author was dressed in battered workboots and serge trousers and a linen shirt once varicoloured and now faded by innumerable and unguessable tribulations and on his head he wore an enormous hat. The hat seemed larger than any skull of normal proportions could comfortably support yet it had not fallen over his brow but rode high on his head as if invisibly elevated by the pressure of his vestibular calculations.

Hola, señor, called one of the onlookers from the shade of the hacienda. Por qué tienes un sombrero tan grande?

The man turned and scanned the rows of impassive townsfolk with an air of benign interest and having identified the speaker walked slowly over to him.

The one who had spoken was a child and in his hands he dandled a small semicolon which could not have been but two weeks from its mother for it moved with clumsy uncoordination still and used its limbs as if they had yet to master the calculus that governs even such inconsequent occupations as theirs.

The man looked down with an enquiring expression. The child did not respond but the man took or affected to take his lack of objection for assent for he leaned and closed his enormous hands around the semicolon. Whether from surprise or uncertainty the child did not resist and the author lifted the semicolon up before his face as a man might lift a rare and exotic plant or a delicate fossil in whose Archimedian ridges may be deduced the existence of a vast phylum extinguished by the monstrous weight of millenia. He turned the semicolon about in his hands for a moment as if to confirm some prior supposition and then with one swift wrench tore the creature in half so that the period was in one hand and the comma in the other. He threw the comma away as a man might throw a louse he has picked from his skin and with an air of grave and sacerdotal courtesy replaced the now motionless period in the boy's hands.

No necesitarás nada más que esto, he said.

The boy did not respond and the man turned and walked back to his horse and mounted into the saddle and watched by them all he rode slowly out of the town and down the arroyo until even the profile of his hat was dissolved in the wabbling heat and the sun burned down upon the pueblo and the inhabitants of the pueblo its eternal and implacable adjudication.”

[Anonymous No.20256813]

>>20256806
>HE ROSE AND STOOD TOTTERING IN THAT COLD AUTISTIC DARK WITH HIS ARMS OUTHELD FOR BALANCE WHILE THE VESTIBULAR CALCULATIONS IN HIS SKULL CRANKED OUT THEIR RECKONINGS

[Anonymous No.20256817]

His prose is fucking amazing so I'm inclined to think his opinions are worth far more than whatever /lit/tards here have to say.

[Anonymous No.20256823]

>>20256817
>His prose is fucking amazing

[Anonymous No.20256827]

>>20255272
And then he picked up the tortilla and he put the tortilla into the coffee cup and he used the tortilla to absorb the remnants of the coffee and he ate the tortilla slathered in coffee and he pondered how the world was an itinerant carnival populated by grotesque chimeras with neither analogue nor precedent and a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning and he finished the tortilla and he spat and he rode on and he scalped a mexican and he then had the gall to say that Proust INSISTED ON HIMSELF.

[Anonymous No.20256828]

>>20256813
Kek

[Anonymous No.20256833]

>>20254661
James is shit. I'm with Cormac on this.

[Anonymous No.20256841]

>>20256817
>basic bitch archaisms
>FUCKING A----MAZING PREEHWS DEWD, must mean Proust actually SUCKS
The american mind is a place of cold autistic dark, of calamitous reckonings, a nation bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent.

[Anonymous No.20256842]

>>20256833
another filtered peon (sadly)

[Anonymous No.20256850]

>>20254661
based fag hater

[Anonymous No.20256870]

>>20254661
It's almost as if different people have different tastes, amazing.

[Anonymous No.20256871]

>>20256823
yeah you got filtered

[Anonymous No.20256880]

>>20256842
many such cases!

[Anonymous No.20256883]

>>20256827
Cormac didn't say that proust insisted upon himself, a poster on /lit/ did that.
Also, that is not what "insisting upon oneself" means.

[Anonymous No.20256886]

>>20256806

[Anonymous No.20256909]

>>20256883
Then what does it mean big (dick) boy?

[Anonymous No.20256936]

>>20256842
No, he just sucks. Nabokov could see it too.

[Anonymous No.20256958]

this is almost worse than when she who will not be named became a Deatheater!

[Anonymouṡ No.20257052]

>>20256806
>The hat seemed larger than any skull of normal proportions could comfortably support yet it had not fallen over his brow but rode high on his head as if invisibly elevated by the pressure of his vestibular calculations.
You have to post the picture that goes with it.

[Anonymous No.20257113]

>>20256958
Hillary Clinton?

[Anonymous No.20257301]

>>20254661
>"A lot of writers who are considered good I consider strange."
I wonder who is he talking about here

[Anonymous No.20257643]

>>20254661
I always find it fascinating when authors, critics and people who are supposedly well-read and intelligent say things like this, how come they do not understand that admiting this kind of stuff diminishes their position and status?

In my country, Spain, when the literary elites say stuff like this they try to hide the fact that they didint understood something because of their own limits, which you kno, its not the most honest thing but they are trying to defend themselves, i can uderstand it. But a lot of tiems when isee these kind of affirmations when they come from an Anglo country, and specially the US, the critique never goes beyond "ididnt understand it because its dumb and the author is a geek lol get rekt".

The amount of self-confidence you must have to say something like this and not elaborate comes either from having titanium balls or being dumb.

[Anonymous No.20257651]

>>20257643
>Spain

Yeah that explains it

[Anonymous No.20257657]

>>20257643
stfu cuck.
he simply expressed his opinions.

[Anonymous No.20257661]

>>20257651
>>20257657
he's right. if you get filtered by proust, you're just an idiot and should refrain from speaking.

[Anonymous No.20257662]

>>20256841
>The american mind is a place of cold autistic dark, of calamitous reckonings, a nation bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent.

Amazing, loved it.

[Anonymous No.20257682]

>>20257651
watch your mouth or I'll go fuck your girl and make you watch