Greatest novels of all times

>12. Nabokov, Vladimir: Ada
>15. Faulkner, William: Light in August
Classic Scaruffi

>Pavese above Gadda
Shit taste

Scaruffi you hipster

>perfect taste in music
>perfect taste in film
>perfect taste in literature
>has traveled the whole world
>accomplished cognitive scientist and historian

how does he do it?

>one per author
>two books by dosto

well, i did kinda agree with music that he prefers/likes, but his taste in film is not that great to be quite honest. it's kinda over exaggerated i think when he put it his view/list/criticism on film on his website, i mean, it's kinda paint a bad picture, because apart from that, his opinion on music i am respecting very much.

>>perfect taste in film
>>perfect taste in literature
no his taste in both of these is generic as fuck. disappointing considering his taste on music (pre 80s completely ripped from lester bangs but still)

Melville, Herman: Poopy Dick

>Perfect taste in literature
>Pavese and Svevo above Gadda

Scaruffi mentions in this interview that he only created the lists because people around him kept asking what his favorite stuff was and he didn't want to repeat the same things over and over again. I wonder how much he knows/cares about what a meme he is.

youtube.com/watch?v=16gT0lnSoew

Generic ? What an insult ! Go read some Witkiewicz you poser.

Weeellllll
scaruffi.com/fiction/besti.html

>pre 80s completely ripped from lester bangs but still
Explore his different classic/avant lists. Bangs never this far, not even close.

never went*

>Morante 5
>Eco 18
>Manzoni 40 (wtf)
Pretty gay list desu

The Trial isn't that great

I will never understand people who shit on a "best of" list based on 2 or 3 discutable picks alone. Could you please share a more complete list of italian fiction novels ? Curious question btw, desu.

Oops, discutable = debatable, sorry.

ps : meanwhile, his poetry list also mention stuff like Nijhoff and Meireles which is more than this board can handle ofc.

What about Scaruffles poetry?
scaruffi.com/poetry.html

woah...

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Why can't I marry a 12 year old?

> ctrl + f
> "Hamsun"
> "0/0"

>ctrl + f
>"Kerouac"
>"Phrase not found"

His taste in all three is exactly the same, if you really think his music is better than the other two that's because you're at music where you see him at film or lit.

scaruffi the aphorist
scaruffi.com/quotes.html

how can i find bands with less than 10 plays on lastfm i want to be based like u

scaruffi.com/fiction/bestsc.html

He tells you to check the language-specific list first. Jfc you guys are thirsty for your own little author to pop up.

Why would it be? Kafka is an extremely overrated writer.

I love Kafka but the Trial really isn't THAT good, Amerika is better
Likewise, The Magic Mountain is Mann's best work.

He really isn't

Kafka's writing is second-rate, high school-tier fiction geared at weirdos. Shouldn't be surprising he's so popular here given the number of depressed freaks per capita, but based on objective standards he's middling at best.

Too bad scaruffi isn't even a tenth of the writter Bangs was

Jesus... you seem like a real asshole IRL, man.

lol

Basically the average Veeky Forums poster

In all honesty I can say I've read some of him, and he doesn't have too bad taste.

> Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russia, 1821): "Bratia Karamazovy/ Brothers Karamazov" (1880)

That's not how you spell Bulgakov and The Master and Margarita, user

>Basically the average Veeky Forums poster
Whatever you say newfag

I don’t read music critics desu, couldn’t care less. Musicos from time to time but that’s it.

>still cherrypicking
Any of you guys want to share your top 50 ? We sure would be laughing. 40+ anglos novels right from the get-go

>Tolstoy below top ten
>W&P instead of Anna Karenina
>Wuthering Heights over Moby Dick
>Proust at 45
>Bellow within 1,500 square miles of this list

I used to respect Scaruffi but goddamn

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>cherrypicking
Again and again and agai...

To all the people complaining about certain novels being above or below others: he didn't rank these in order of their greatness. He just put down his top 50 novels.

Piero, we understand you're insecure, and that's why you feel the need to have opinions on everything, but whiteknighting yourself on a Ghanaian stone-tool enthusiast forum is pretty sad, even for you

Plus he specifically notes the lists by language are more detailed.

You miss the point. This isn’t about Pierro’s list, but the nature of so-called "best of" lists. Bitching about WW being over AK is childish. Nobody cares about your specific tastes...

W&P*

ps : go read some Musil now

Better taste in books that music

Imagine being this guy

Lester bangs is enjoyable to read even if you don't care at all about the music he's reviewing or even music at all, he's that good. He's one of the few critics that realize that it's impossible to fully explain music using words and let an album speak for itself. This leads him to talk about things surrounding the music, how people around him react to it, the politics, or maybe just a fun totally made up story that's somewhat related to the music. However he does go into detail about how the album makes him feel, and he does this with such clarity and depth that you can feel like you're talking to him one on one.

>Nobody cares about your specific tastes...
But we're supposed to treat Piero's with unquestioning deference. And why the fuck did you use an ellipsis there, you feather-spined woman?

I’ve read some of his work (on Delta blues and Beefheart I think), but I shall dig deeper in the futur. Still, music writing isn’t really my thing.

You’re not questionning the spirit of his list by bitching about your favorite little Tolstoi book. Keep trying (or share your own list).

Bangs wrote in no small part to entertain. Scaruffi cares much less for form than content.