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Does /lit/ have any favourite literary rivalries? I saw a YouTube video of Norman Mailer arguing with Gore Vidal that was great, but I wonder if people aren't passionate enough about literature now for these kinds of rivalries to exist anymore.

>> No.3624820

>DFW vs. Bret Easton Ellis
>Richard Ford vs. Everybody
>Martin Amis vs. Everybody
>Poe vs. Longfellow (Then again, everybody hated Poe)
>Faulkner vs. Hemingway

>> No.3624832

>DFW v Mark Leyner
Is better
>n+1 v McSweeneys
Is great too
>Tao Lin v Gawker
Is questionably existent and all the more hilarious
>Lil B v The Game
Also awesome

>> No.3624853

>>3624643
Gore Vidal vs Bill Buckley is even better

>> No.3624856

>>3624820
And everyone should still hate Poe, as he is really mediocre.

>> No.3624862

>>3624853
This. I think there's a youtube clip of them getting pissy on a talk show

>> No.3624867

Rimbaud vs. Verlaine..... in bed

>> No.3624873

Homer vs. Hesiod
Sophocles vs. Euripides

>> No.3624894

Shakespeare vs. Ben Jonson

>> No.3624898

Robert Frost vs. Wallace Stevens

>> No.3624899

Samuel Richardson vs. Henry Fielding

>> No.3624911

Thomas Pynchon vs. Benno von Archimboldi

>> No.3624925

Murasaki Shikibu vs. Sei Shonagon

>> No.3624933

>>3624911
Who???

>> No.3624939

>>3624911
this guy

>> No.3624943

>>3624933
2666 (Pynchon isn't actually mentioned by name in the book but the dude is pretty Pynchonesque)

>> No.3624946

>>3624933
the guy who made the paintings with the faces in vegetables

>> No.3624951

>>3624946
Yeah that's who I was thinking of. My fave is the one with the fish

>> No.3624953
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3624953

Truly the height of mannerism

>> No.3624960
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3624960

>>3624953
I never really got the fire one, though. The other elements are made up of the animals that live within them, but I guess he couldn't think of anything for this one

>> No.3624962

>>3624951
>>3624946
>>3624953
as awesome as this is, that's giuseppe arcimboldo you guys

>> No.3624965

I can't think of any more famous literary rivalries

>> No.3626089

Wallace Stevens vs Ernest Hemingway (they actually got into fist fights in Key West)
Hart Crane vs T.S. Eliot

>> No.3626099

>>3624960
Notice the necklace thing? The inset oval on [our] far right is quite obviously a mirror.
Now look at the other three.
Apparently Giuseppe was a shoggoth.

>> No.3626116

>>3626089

Holy shit, that's awesome.

>> No.3626147

Beet Easton Ellis and every other writer

>> No.3626408

>>3626116
Realize that Hemingway was 37 at the time, and Stevens was 57. Hemingway was beating up on an old man

>> No.3626441

Gabriel García Marquez Vs Vargas-Llosa. They had a fight on a movie theater...

>> No.3626480

William Buckley and Gore Vidal

>If you don't shut up I'm gonna punch you in the goddamn mouth

>> No.3626484

Voltaire vs Rousseau

>> No.3626489

This is perhaps not a rivalry, but an altercation arose between George Orwell and HG Wells.

Orwell wrote an essay called "Wells, Hitler and the World State" and it is about what was happening in the Third Reich at the time, in terms of ideology, technology, society etc. is pretty much the fulfillment of Wells' world state idea.

Wells was furious at this and wrote a letter to Orwell, castigating him for it and calling him "a shit".

>> No.3626496

John Gardner v William Gaddis
Actually Gardner v just about everybody only most writers just didn't pay any attention to him.

>> No.3626503

Mailer pissed off most of his contemporaries in an essay about "The Talent in the Room"

>> No.3626508

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing

>> No.3626510

Dosty vs. Turgenev and Tolstoy

I don't know about how the latter two got on, but Dosty was jealous that he had to write to actually survive and couldn't afford to play peasants all day.