Camus, Albert

Nah, not even that. Just awful grounds for dismissal.

only plebs refute psycholanalysis. You won't ever meet someone educated telling you "lol freudian theories are bullshit xD"

Depends on whether they were educated in the English department or the department of psychiatry/neuroscience.

Pale Fire

I think last time somebody wrote Nabokov criticisms of modern authors too

If you choose your books based on your personal opinion of the author you're not even intelligent enough to read it.

>likes Hawthorne, Melville, Rimbaud, Housman, Flaubert, Joyce, Keats, Updike, and Tolstoy
>hates Eliot, Woolf, and Lawrence
God tier taste tbqh

Being a pile of horseshit is "awful grounds for dismissal"? Are you high?

0/10.

George Eliot or T.S. Eliot?

both ;)

k

How do you think Nabby would respond to being called a fat, balding cuck? I'm sure he'd pretend it didn't phase him and refer to the accuser as highly immature then cry deeply when he's alone.

I might agree with what he says about other authors but it is weird that he has done what he accuses others of doing.

"The King, Queen, and Knave" is the most second-rate novel if there has ever been one. If you are going to try and write NTR at least make it interesting.

i dont think he would even acknowledge such a meaningless meme insult from some illiterate neckbeard

But what if I mailed him letters of my shit and harassed him in public?

"I was the shadow of the lapwing slain\
By the false azure in the window pane."
>Thinks he's a bird
>Rhyming monosyllable words
>Pretentious as fuck (lol, azure, lol)
Top lines from old Nabby, how does he do it, smart man, hats are off and tipping Americans as we speak

I didn't know Robert Christagau had started reviewing books.

Ulysses - scissor, two bombs

>i was like a bird flying into a window

Read the whole book, asshat.

Honestly I feel like he's the type of person who gets disproportionately upset at people using the fedora meme.

Like just a picture of a guy tipping his hat, nothing else. It'd enrage him, to think he gave the time of day to a memer.

>Rank moralist and didacticist
This speaks about his tastes. He's an edgy faggot who hates some good morals around him. If your book is truly well written and interesting but has a message of nice intent, then this faggot will hate it.

>well-written social comment poshlost book
Wrote no one ever.

Wilde was a degenerate homosexual and anarchist.

So... Infinite Jest is shit?
Most greek philosophy?
Or is this bait?

Infinite Jest is shit and I haven't even read it.

>Infinite Jest
The book is not centered around a "message" though like you could say of 1984 or such other mediocre novels. Having social questions inserted in your book is not the problem.
>Greek philosophy
I meant fiction books, obviously, as does Nabokov when he says social comment is poshlost.

The book is a lot about anti-entertainment, though.

And Bend Sinister is a lot about tyranny and bureaucracy. What matters is that some novelists submit their whole books to "teaching" something as if their novels were didactic books, and that is terrible mediocrity. I think it's even worse when you're talking about playwrights because things like the well-made plays are just manifestly didactic and formulaic, whereas novelists at least insert episodes which are independent of the "message" usually.

Shit mang

I agree with this guy, I hate preachy lesson of the day novels

>I was a useless cripple for most of my youth and shouldn't have spread my degenerate genes around
>But I did anyway, lol
>As expected, offspring's ugly as fuck, gains /r9k/ status and an heros
>Start getting groomed by this weird foreigner who fellates me in ways my wife doesn't
>Best write a shoddy Pope rip-off about how I think I'm a bird
Truly great insight into the human condition, Nabby best author of all time, are others even trying? Lol, no, have bantzs XDXDXD

The question isn't if preachy novels are bad, it's whether Wilde is preachy. I mean the guy wrote that "An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style".

why haven't you commit suicide yet?

DELET

>lapwing

According to King, Ackroyd's approach to reviewing was refreshingly straightforward: "One of his main requirements was that he wanted one to say disobliging things, which I quite welcomed. He thought there were a lot of people who didn't say what they really thought because they were nervous of giving offence. He didn't want any beating around the bush." Ackroyd's own reviews certainly followed this template, dismissing Auden's poetry as "dreadful stuff", accusing Nabokov of the literary equivalent of "playing with himself" and blasting Mishima: "This is not writing, this is Barbara Cartland - and Barbara Cartland at least has the courage not to commit hara-kiri over it."

Mega retards

tryhard

>corncobby chronicles
I laugh every time I read this.

Does anyone know what he thought of Wallace Stevens?

I'm just curious

>Dislike him. ephemeral. puffed-up. second-rate.

Does anybody actually dislike Flaubert ? Even his French contemporaries and contrarians like Nabokov and Bloy respected him.

He reinvented the novel. He took what Cervantes et al did, and turned it into an art form.

You're right about Oscar wilde in one sense. I was a big fan of his at 14.

He likes all the boring ones that require no thought at all, goes to show

>Woolf and Lawrence require thought

Nabokov would be shitposting here on lit if he were 18

He'd dislike his own work if it was written by somebody else. He's a pretentious jackass but I admire him.

he's the literal exact opposite of a cuck
you fucking wish you could have a vera in your life

sometimes i do think it would be worth it to marry a jew for connections

"I was planning on ordering Lolita" I feel like this is becoming a meme around here

>Does anybody actually dislike Flaubert ?
Only in french threads, unsurprisingly.

>being this assblasted that you're only relevant for writing a book banking on the shock value of fucking little girls

>posting tiddies to get attention on an irrelevant image board for NEETs

yeah, welcome to newfags from /mu/ turning 18 and wanting to shit up another board for easy """"""""""""""""""""""""art"""""""""""""""""""""""

I meant other authors. Makes sense that retards who don't actually read and only studied Flaubert briefly in school would hate him.

I laughed. I just finished "speak, memories" and I quite agree.

rekt

>looking at a man's breasts

*yawns*
You are trying too hard.

I bet he wasn't even a real pedophile, just trying to be contrarian.

>camus
>ephemeral
isn't that the point of his work?