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22469530 No.22469530 [Reply] [Original]

Well, /lit/, do you think your false sense of literary taste and other dilettante pretences have been quashed by the man himself?

>> No.22469832

literal crickets

>> No.22469886

>>22469530
Personally I always liked Stephen King. I was thinking the same as DFW.

>> No.22469891

>>22469530
Both are shit. Good literature hasn't been written since Rome fell

>> No.22469908

DFW is an infamous meme author noted for le 1000 page Shakespeare title about dude weed and society and mental illness. Neither surprised nor concerned that he preceded the bandwagon of claiming the ackshually schlock is essential lit

>> No.22469910

>>22469530
>literary taste
He's using excerpts from King as examples for aping yokel-speak to UIC undergrads, not saying that the works are masterpieces of literature. King's ok, he's also a low brow rube that writes for the lowest common denominator.

>> No.22469994

>>22469910
How are you on this board with reading comprehension like this? Reread what DFW said.

>> No.22470055

>>22469994
No read it honestly and convince yourself that I am right.

>> No.22470074

>>22470055
>not saying that the works are masterpieces of literature.
Of course you're right here because he doesn't think masterpieces of literature even exist in a real sense, because they're not clearly defined:
>Students come to me and a lot of them have been led to believe that there's good stuff and bad stuff, literary books and popular books, stuff that's redemptive and commercial shit--with a sharp line drawn between the two categories. It's good to show them that there's a certain amount of blurring

>> No.22470077

>>22469530
Early Stephen King is good literature