Who's the most cultured writer that makes sure his (or "her" [lel]) reader knows how smart and educated he is?

who's the most cultured writer that makes sure his (or "her" [lel]) reader knows how smart and educated he is?

My vote goes to Victor Hugo.

Tolstoy also gets a mention because of his walls of french text.

Joyce for his constant references to obscure writers and Irish history that only three people in Dublin know about.

Nassim Taleb, but he isn't actually smart or educated, he just constantly derails each train of thoughts with discussions where he tries to convince you he's the smartest man alive

complete garbage.

this

shitty w. tbqh

So much. He spends 5% of the time starting to make a point but will always tie it back to how much of a "flaneur" (closeted dandy) he is.

>puts the [] inside the () instead of the other way round

At the time in Russia the aristocracy knew French almost by default. Not impressive at all.

Of the writers I've read, Umberto Eco and Miroslav Krleža come to mind as good examples of what you're looking for.

Also, this

>My vote goes to Victor Hugo.

this tendency is general to frogs. Balzac was like this. Houellebecq is like this. the really good ones get away with it but it still can get annoying

and the funny thing is, you get a good sense of who they HAVEN'T read because of all the namedrops

nabokov pretnds to know a lot about shit he is clueless about. nabokov in general is fairly mediocre, he is hyped by the establishment because he is deeply conservative.