Is there a single literary critic who was also a great fiction writer?
>>7315880
bloom is a historical artifact
go2/his/
>>7315899
A literary critic is not the same as a philosopher, and would never not be /lit/ material.
critics are good non-fiction by their nature
if they are good fiction writers they are probably not good critics
>>7315915
No you idiot, some guy is basically giving dust-jacket biographies of every author
>>7315880
ts eliot wrote criticism
Nabokov ofc
>>7315880
borges
>>7315953
Beat me to it.
>>7315880
Poe, sort of.
Henry James is probably the only one who was great at both.
D.H. Lawrence
>>7316172
Him too, actually
Oscar Wilde
but I'd say in any of these cases they're a writer or artist first
>>7315880
Borges
Calvino
Kundera
Pamuk
Read
>>7316196
Also, Piglia and Alan Pauls
Charles Baudelaire, Théophile Gautier, Octave Mirabeau both wrote critics about literature and fine arts. Joris-Karl Huysmans was an art critic and Charles-Augustin de Sainte-Beuve, Honoré de Balzac, Gérard de Nerval also were well-known for this part of their life. Michel Polac, although a prolific writer, was renowned for its critics which has been widely considered to have a high literary value.
>>7315880
Nabokov?
The entire Weimar classicism. As in Goethe and Schiller.
Also Lessing.
>>7316210
Since when are Piglia and Pauls great fiction writers? They are barely ok.
>>7316422
I think they are great, but it's ok that we don't agree, senpai
John Updike, Henry James, William H. Gass
