Anyone else prefer literary criticism to literature?

>>9691697
Given that this board is made up of nebbish narcissistics: yes.

>>9691697
I had this problem. I would just NOT read a book before studying thoroughly the poetics of the author. Which I realized is ridiculous so now I just read straight up

I always use literary criticism I've read at parties to impress women, and only connect it to literature if I can. Parroting concepts is much more impressive to the rabble than namedropping authors.

>>9691697
GOD NO

Well, I enjoy reading George Steiner puzzle out the respective greatness of Tolstoy vs. Dostoyevsky more than I enjoy reading Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky, and Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World more than you know who, and any given top-tier jstor essay on Faulkner more than Faulkner.

So you have company, OP.

t. OP

>>9692368
yea, until you run into matt damon at a bar

>>9693735
kek