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Favourite writers anyone? Why?
My favourite writers at at the moment are jeffrey eugemides (the virgin suicides) and donna tartt (the secret history, the little friend, the goldfinch)
Realist narrators, not a bad line or dissonant sentence in them I can recall, I think a lot of good writers write prose that is largely irrelevant to the narrative integriry
I think the russian authors of the 19th century are overrated, I've read dostoyevsky's crime and punishment, the devils, the idiot, the brothers karamazov, the double, notes from undergroiund, the eternal husband, white nights, poor folk, the gambler- he's definitely worthy of esteem and his books are readable but, I don't rate him in my top 3- objectively his work is the greatest in literature, creates discrete characters and have them develop in respect to each other, which is clairvoyant, a 6th sense you can't learn
I've read war and peace by tolstoy and death of ivan ilyich, very good, but
I've read Ivan Turgenev's fathers and sons on the beach in corsica 25 years ago
I also like james joyce and oscar wilde because they're Irish, Joyce started with conventional english in dubliners, different techniques in a portrait of the artist as a young man, more cryptic with ulysses, and outright unintelligible with finnegans wake, a lecturer in ucd, the university joyce attended, said there were two types of readership, those who pretend to read it and those who read it to pretend, joyce said it took him 17 years to write finnegans wake so it should take his readers 17 years to read it, I was at a show in the local theatre where a guest lecturer said there was an academic who intended to translate finnegans eake into languages other than english, he quipped you'd have to translate it into english first,
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My favourite writers at at the moment are jeffrey eugemides (the virgin suicides) and donna tartt (the secret history, the little friend, the goldfinch)
Realist narrators, not a bad line or dissonant sentence in them I can recall, I think a lot of good writers write prose that is largely irrelevant to the narrative integriry
I think the russian authors of the 19th century are overrated, I've read dostoyevsky's crime and punishment, the devils, the idiot, the brothers karamazov, the double, notes from undergroiund, the eternal husband, white nights, poor folk, the gambler- he's definitely worthy of esteem and his books are readable but, I don't rate him in my top 3- objectively his work is the greatest in literature, creates discrete characters and have them develop in respect to each other, which is clairvoyant, a 6th sense you can't learn
I've read war and peace by tolstoy and death of ivan ilyich, very good, but
I've read Ivan Turgenev's fathers and sons on the beach in corsica 25 years ago
I also like james joyce and oscar wilde because they're Irish, Joyce started with conventional english in dubliners, different techniques in a portrait of the artist as a young man, more cryptic with ulysses, and outright unintelligible with finnegans wake, a lecturer in ucd, the university joyce attended, said there were two types of readership, those who pretend to read it and those who read it to pretend, joyce said it took him 17 years to write finnegans wake so it should take his readers 17 years to read it, I was at a show in the local theatre where a guest lecturer said there was an academic who intended to translate finnegans eake into languages other than english, he quipped you'd have to translate it into english first,
#entertainment
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