Tell me /lit/, is he a better essayist than novelist?

>>9462484
No not at all, he's really all over the place. He's that unaware lazy type of English intellectual who doesn't bother developing accountable structures of thoughts but rather says whatever he is impulsively drawn towards at any present moment despite how it may be in direct contradiction to something he said only recently. All the while with a phoney air of erudition.

He was a journalist and boy does it show

It's not actually a contest, and you're not actually engaging with the texts.

>>9462499
Are you a journalist? Your post embodies all you've written.

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>>9462499

Interesting perspective, anon. Care to back it up with some examples from his work?

>>9462503
No I'm a poster on an anime forum, sorry if my standards for posting here don't match my expectations of a published essayist

>>9462503
FUCKING
TOLD

>>9462505
His famous proclamation "All art is propaganda" he rarely ever followed through with consistently. Rather than taking up a Frankfurt style recognition of art as an industrial process he instead skid back and would later be making the kind of Puritan exoltations of politicized works he viewed poorly which triggered him to make such a claim to begin with.
His work is rife with these sorts of oblivious games of ping pong with himself