How much of an effect do you believe the location a work is written

100%

Some

None

Depends

>>8267430
one of the things I like best about Thomas Hardy novels is the way he describes the countryside
Joyce's Dublin and Dickens' London are very vivid and very much a part of the enjoyment of their books.
OTOH some of Beckett's stuff could take place anywhere. Just a couple of tramps sitting by a tree. Or an old man in his room. Or just a voice that won't stop.

>>8267432
>>8267437
>>8267467
>>8267468

Nailed it.

The fucking background context (author, where it was written, when it was written, etc) doesn't mean fucking shit.

Read "Death of the Author"

>>8267513
looool

m8

he's just postulating a question about potential influence on the text, not the reading

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>>8267430

Of course. The cozier the landscape the writer surrounds himself in, the cozier his work will be.

>>8267492
>Joyce's Dublin and Dickens' London are very vivid and very much a part of the enjoyment of their books.

But was it required of Joyce and Dickens that they write within their very settings?

Is it not enough that they lived Dublin and London life? Did they have to write their works about those cities while living in those cities in order to achieve mastery of setting that they did?

>>8267539
This is true.

>>8267539
>>8268630

Not exactly.

Look at the examples of aristocrats who are surrounded in comfort and luxury and they still write awful pieces of work (i.e. Marquis de Sade)

>live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest
>not far from Vancouver, rated one of the most beautiful cities in the world
>my work is still ugly shit

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>>8269604

You have done good in placing yourself in a beautiful area. Now you must work on making your soul beautiful.

If you have a ugly soul, then your work shall be ugly as well.

>>8268085
Frost wrote North of Boston while living in England.

German prison in the 1920's...

>>8267430
It depends more on how one perceives and characterizes it than the place itself.

Tai Pei is nothing like The New York Trilogy, for example.

>>8269600

I'd argue that much of those places were not actually all that comfortable in a sense of coziness. There is no intimacy and the overwhelming space combined with lavish embellishment of the furniture/decor would have surely ruined anything cozy about the place.

A fireplace in a cabin with a warm fur is cozy.
A stiff sofa surrounded by chandeliers and platters of figs is not.

>>8267513
lol, New Criticism was debunked like 50 yrs ago. Catch up.

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>>8271010

>Comfy meme

Please fuck off

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>>8271392

Why would you not fuck onto the comfy meme?

It's comfy as fuck, come on man.