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Authors who were fanboys for other authors?

>> No.22970541

>>22970534
Mishima for Oscar Wilde.
Houellebecq for Lovecraft.
Jack London for Kipling.
Baudelaire for Poe.
Borges for Stevenson.

>> No.22970546

>>22968895

>> No.22970550

>>22970541
Kafka idolized Flaubert too.

>> No.22970554

>>22970534
Melville for Hawthorne it was more like an unrequited boy crush

>> No.22970567

>>22970534
Dostoyevsky and Dickens

>> No.22970572
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>>22970554
Hawthorne was relentlessly handsome

>> No.22970587

>>22970541
Borges loved every single author in the history of the written word.

>> No.22970601

>>22970587
Not Proust, Gabriela Mistral, Tolkien...

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>>22970601
We're talking about real authors here, kid.
Jokes aside, I see why Borges wouldn't like Tolkien. Authors like Borges and Eco can write erudite works and still be accessible, Tolkien is really difficult to vibe with.

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22970658

>>22970639
>Tolkien is really difficult to vibe with.
Edwin Muir said in his review of Return of the King that he got the impression that it was written by a virgin and that upset Tolkien so much he complained to his publisher.

>> No.22970679

>DFW loved Don Dellilo. Supposedly read White Noise over ten times
>Chekov and Tolstoy both ways
>kafka and dostoy
>nabokov
>McCarthy and Melville

>> No.22970684

>>22970658
>>22970639
That is some virgin energy right there, no wonder virgins and virgins at heart (manchildren) like his work so much. Borges also shit-talked the baroque stylists in another interview. Even though there is not a single woman in a Borges story, you can tell he fucked a lot.

>> No.22970698

>>22970679
>kafka and dostoy
what is the source?

>> No.22970701

>>22970684
>Borges also shit-talked the baroque stylists in another interview.
Which interview? Do you have the link?

>> No.22970704

>>22970684
>there is not a single woman in a Borges story
Ulrica and Emma Zunz

>> No.22970709

>>22970701
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj4kajdoSfc
Somewhere in the first 15 minutes, I think. I was half listening and my spanish isn't the best.

>> No.22970718

>>22970701
>>22970709
Google his name next to Gongora and read around if you cannot find it there. It is an important aspect of Borges.

>> No.22970723

>>22970698
He said Dostoevsky was a blood brother

>> No.22970733

>>22970709
>>22970718
Thank you very much.

>> No.22970735

>>22970723
>Kafka considered Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gustav Flaubert, Nikolai Gogol, Franz Grillparzer,[38] and Heinrich von Kleist to be his "true blood brothers".[39]
that's a lot of brothers.

>> No.22970741

>>22970735
Writers usually have a ton of influences

>> No.22970793

>>22970658
Lmao I‘m fuckin dead

>> No.22970893

>>22970679
>DFW loved Don Dellilo. Supposedly read White Noise over ten times
source

>> No.22970913

>>22970735
>>22970741
He left out his biggest influence in Robert Walser.

>> No.22970968

>>22970534
Poe was tsundere for Longfellow. Even defended Longfellow under a pseudonym after he (Poe) criticisized one of his poems.