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The Anglo-saxon fetish of French literature 2017-03-26 02:53:01 Post No. 9294592
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Hello there, French dude here.
Could you explain to me why English academic milieux seem to fetishize French literature as some pinnacle of knowledge or of social sciences.
Anglo-saxon lit has always looked to me as much more diversed, straightforward and, quite frankly, using to its own avail the much more flexible language that is English. Same could be said with Russian lit, more poignant and rooted in the reality of human condition.
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>>9294592
For the same reason that Frenchies fetishize Edgar Allan Poe
Exoticism
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C'est une bait. Le Sage et la Hide.
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>>9294596
I'd say Oscar Wilde was a stronger influence on French lit that Poe ever was. But Wilde was gay so...
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>>9294603
>I'd say Oscar Wilde was a stronger influence on French lit that Poe ever was.
*frowns at you*
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>>9294592
France is apparently the cultured antithesis of English rough and ready barbarism.
Little do Anglo's realise that there's nothing worth reading from France and that Francophone readers are simply stuck in a crap language.
>Germanic languages master race here
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>>9294592
>seem to fetishize French literature as some pinnacle of knowledge
LOL
what?
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>>9294592
anglos dont do this but french lit is indeed one of the pinnacles of western civ.
polite sage
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