Overrated authors thread?

(You), in my country, are nothing.

>Their high rating can't be attributed to their "real" qualities: their importance is due to an excess of meaning attributed to them.

Obviously, we should instead value your own opinions on the relative worth of these works, correct?

>"real" qualities

Examples?

Something in the works themselves rather than their cultural significance due to historical reasons.

Yes.

>Something in the works themselves rather than their cultural significance due to historical reasons.

Why are these more important?

Since some people consider him the best writer of all time, he likely is overrated. He's still among the best ones though.

Shakespeare helped formulate the English Language, how is he overrated

The English language is no good.

kafka didn't even want to be published retard

>hasn't read kafka's complete short stories yet complains about him being overrated