Unpopular opinions

>>8868838
your a pleb

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>>8868838
>That Dostoevsky's debt to Edgar Allan Poe for Crime and Punishment is the least bit controversial shows how shallow literary research has become.

>The only directors, stage or film, who actually studied Hamlet before staging it, all wrong, were Zefferelli, who got it all right, and with Mel Gibson no less, and Gielgud.

>There are approximately three living humans who remotely understand Infinite Jest

>The career of Thomas Wolfe is largely due to, and a documentary proof that, men with unusually large penises are not off the hook, as far as self-doubt and crippling existential depression are concerned.

>There will never be another Maxwell Perkins.

>Meirnik Dossier and Tears of Autmn are among the best American literature ever published, and McCarry is a genius lost on his own country.

>Whatever you think of Hemmmingway, and the fact is the Nick Adams stories are his only accomplishment, bullfighting is fucking cool.

>>8869355
Some very reddit opinions you got there bud

Your second point is poorly formulated

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Pointless pretentious drivel.

>>8868838
I don't know about the English translation but Céline used genuine spoken "argot" of the time. It's not exaggerated in any way.

Dostoevsky sucks

>>8869377
This is a fairly common opinion and not just on /lit/.

even though he is lackluster when it comes to dialogue, because of how he sets the atmosphere in his books, murakami is a very good writer

>>8869373
>This poster has never read anything mentioned in that post

>>8869377
lol it's a story about a dude bumming around the country; what about it is pretentious

>>8869377
less pretentious than any other classic lit

prove me wrong

>>8869410
>that
>classic
>b-but Penguin says

holy pleb batman

>>8869423
>classic = quality

Jacob's Room is a piece of shit.

>>8869355
>There are approximately three living humans who remotely understand Infinite Jest

Let me guess, you're one of them

>>8869492
I'm actually all three

The idea that the greatest art is "immortal" and "universal" is a meme.

1984 > Fahrenheit 451 > Brave New World > most dystopia > the Hunger Games > shit > the other two hunger games books i forget the names of

Seriously, I have not found any dystopian novels better than my top two choices. Yet I see 1984 referred to as babby's first dystopia. I don't even like it for the dystopian aspect, but really, what are the "patrician" dystopian novels I am missing out on, and why are they better?

>>8869703
I think Brave New World's idea of dystopia is more interesting than 1984's, but 1984 is just like the better-written book.

There is nothing wrong with the sunset found her squatting bit from the Game of Thrones books.

>>8868838
starting with the likes of rowling and king and ya novels is a good way to get into reading and starting with the greeks or the majority of other great works of literature is a great way to kill the willingness of someone starting to read

>>8870061
I think Brave New World's idea of dystopia is the most realistic to happen to a certain degree and Orwell made a nice fantasy universe but his dystopia can and will never happen

>>8870089
>>8870061
>>8869703
>Brave New World
>dystopia

hey ho reddit

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Harmony is actually the best and most "realistic" utopia in literature

>>8870115
just imagine how people would bitch if you´d tell them that Brave New World is actually a Utopia

>>8868838
how is céline refined?
there's a scene where a husband abuses his daughter and the family dog which makes the wife aroused enough to cry out that she'd eat his turds no matter how big they are, as they proceed to fuck against the kitchen sink

>>8868838
>céline
>judging his prose on a translation
edgiest opinion I've ever heard tbhdesu

>>8869432
>classic = quality + age

Russian poetry can safely be skipped in its entirety.

>>8869703
Jack London - The Iron Heel
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Circle - Dave Eggers
The Possibility of an Island - Michel Houellebecq
It Pays to Make Love Well - Pasquale Festa Campanile

>>8870223
Are you implying that you read poetry in translation?

>>8870265
Still better than not reading poetry at all, like you do

>>8870265
No. Original.

Either its mopey whining about lost love, or mopey whining about the failings of socialism, or mopey whining about the inequities of the lives of women. For everything that culture did to advance the novel, their poets are stuck on Norton.

>>8870284
>everyone is a monolingual pleb because I am

And no, it's not.

>>8870299
nice meme

Moreover, there exists one characteristic that is singularly peculiar to Poe and which distinguishes him from every other writer, and that is the vigor of his imagination. Not that his fancy exceeds that of all other poets, but his imagination is endowed with a quality which in such magnitude we have not met anywhere else, namely the power of details. Try, for instance, yourselves to realize in your mind anything that is very unusual or has never before occurred, and is only conceived as possible, and you will experience how vague and shadowy an image will appear before your inner eye. You will either grasp more or less general traits of the inward Image or you will concentrate upon the one or the other particular, fragmentary feature. Yet Edgar Poe presents the whole fancied picture or events in all its details with such stupendous plasticity that you cannot but believe in the reality or possibility of a fact which actually never has occurred and even never could happen. Thus he describes in one of his stories a voyage to the moon, and his narrative is so full and particular, hour by hour following the imagined travel, that you involuntarily succumb to the illusion of its reality. In the same way he once told in an American newspaper the story of a balloon that crossed the ocean from Europe to the New World, and his tale was so circumstantial, so accurate, so filled with unexpected, accidental happenings, in short was so realistic and truthful that at least for a couple of hours everybody was convinced of the reported fact and only later investigation proved it to be entirely invented. The same power of imagination, or rather combining power, characterizes his stories of the Purloined Letter, of the murder committed by an orangutan, of the discovered treasure, and so on.

t. Dusty

Mysteries is Knut Hamsun's greatest work.