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Im new to /lit/ been looking at some threads....I don't really get the constant hype of DFW and IJ. He's not really considered in the same league as Joyce Nabokov etc right? Do people seriously believe he's the best or is it just a meme?
Im being serious not a troll
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>>8786934
>Im new to /lit/
clearly
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>>8786934
A lot of it is just ironic memeing I'm pretty sure. /Lit/ is so "postmodern" and cynical that it's often difficult to distinguish between trolling, sarcastic ironic memeing, and genuine posts.
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>>8786934
>I don't really get the constant hype of DFW and IJ
did you read it? if you didn't, you shouldn't talk about it
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>>8786934
People who try to rank writers are plebs anyway.
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>>8786934
He was legit considered to be a genius author by critics and such. That's part of why the Bloom comment was a bit of a shit just after his death.
His works are complicated, and p much you have with Joyce, Pynchon and DFW a modernist, a postmodernist and a post post modernist.
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>>8786979
Of course read it. Just dont think he's genius level. Was more impressed with his working of ideas (in the formal sense) than with words.
Would you say hes top tier all english writers??
DESU I would rank some rappers above him as far as skills with language...
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