>His list of those whom he calls the “good writers” — Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner — precludes anyone who doesn’t “deal with issues of life and death.” Proust and Henry James don’t make the cut. “I don’t understand them,” he says. “To me, that’s not literature. A lot of writers who are considered good I consider strange."
>>7675919
Low tier b8 m8
>>7675919
That is not what "precludes" means.
Cormac McCarthy said that, not John Green.
>>7675959
It sounds good, though, and that's all that matters, isn't it?
>>7675960
further proof mccarthy is a hack
>>7675959
"excludes" would be more correct, no?
That's a Cormac McCarthy quote
>>7675919
>mfw I look up the quote, and the site it's on described him as "the best unknown author in America."
>>7675919
This is my favorite meme.
>>7675919
Cormac McCarthy is a good writer, but he has a fairly juvenile world view. Proust and James explore life and death with profound depth though, I only hope that the quote is fake.
>>7675919
what a goofy looking guy
who the fug is henry james
>>7676268
Look guys, a pleb.
>>7676259
It's not. McCarthy is just a hack.
C'mon, Cormac... even the dog in Against the Day rates Henry James
can you faggots just stop greenposting already
>>7675919
Isn't technically EVERYTHING an issue of life, if not death?
John Green really needs to think longer and harder than he already is before speaking.
>>7676421
>John Green
Hemingway said as much about Faulkner.
>>7676431
hack authors hate good authors and try to belittle them, what else is new?
>>7676139
>1992
>>7676268
lol
>>7676448
wowee you might actually believe this even but that's still some weapons grade b8
@7676448 (You)
>>7676448
>Joyce
>Trash
Trobex bb pls try again
>>7676464
If you think Portrait or even the majority of Ulysses is hard to understand, you actually know nothing about literature.
>>7676464
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>>7675960
>>7675968
>>7676259
It explains why I dislike McCarthy.
He's one of those writers forcing a design onto experience, or designing an experience to showcase, rather than teasing a meaning out of experience of following a whim to its logical conclusions. His writing is intensely inhuman: it's thematic. It's also often adolescent because his designs are all intended to show something about violence, toughness, etc.
I feel writers like him are unable to grasp that Henry James and Proust have an immense amount to teach us about how to properly reach our big ideas about our lives. Proust shows us memory. James shows us the intricate workings of society. These are the problems of our lives, our experiences and our loves.
>>7676498
I like McCarthy, but I definitely agree with you.
>>7676498
that girl with boy hair is clearly trying to give off this image of being some sort of interesting person with an air of elegance.However, this facade belies cookie cutter tumblr sensibilities and passe mental illness (see: depression if your LUCKY, but probably borderline or histrionic... free side serving of daddy issues of course)
Really digging the McCarthy interview that quote is from, don't know if you just wanted to make me read it OP but thanks
>>7676537
i don't think you're wrong but the fact that you got that fucking butt blasted on seeing a picture of a girl means you're probably more annoying than her
>>7676544
sorry, she just looks a lot like a girl that I went around with and I got triggered. I was just projecting really, this girl you posted could be lovely for all I know.
>>7676563
ok, that's fair, sorry i came after you, most of us have that girl that fucked us up, i just thought you were some eternally salty fedora
>>7676537
The girl is actually a neo nazi if you know who she is
Honestly, trying to make us think John Green said this would imply that he even knew who Proust or Dostoyevsky were
>>7676694
Yeh nobody knows who the writer of possibly the most famous novel in history is...
>>7676717
I didn't say that they were obscure, or that they weren't famous.
I'm insulting him, if this isn't completely obvious.
>>7676537
>your
>>7676722
yeah but it's more obvious you're a fucking idiot
john green got an english degree only fucking 12 year olds could've thought that was a smart insult
>>7676796
Oh boy, Green fanboys on /lit/? Really?
>>7676804
no i'm not a green fanboy i just think you're probably even stupider than him and it's 4chan so i had to let you know
>>7676811
Well thanks for your input.
>>7676818
np always glad to help mongs learn to read
>A black crack of noise in the street here, alack, bawled, back. Loud on left Thor thundered: in anger awful the hammerhurler. Came now the storm that hist his heart. And Master Lynch bade him have a care to flout and witwanton as the god self was angered for his hellprate and paganry. And he that had erst challenged to be so doughty waxed pale as they might all mark and shrank together and his pitch that was before so haught uplift was now of a sudden quite plucked down and his heart shook within the cage of his breast as he tasted the rumour of that storm. Then did some mock and some jeer and Punch Costello fell hard again to his yale which Master Lenehan vowed he would do after and he was indeed but a word and a blow on any the least colour. But the braggart boaster cried that an old Nobodaddy was in his cups it was muchwhat indifferent and he would not lag behind his lead. But this was only to dye his desperation as cowed he crouched in Horne's hall. He drank indeed at one draught to pluck up a heart of any grace for it thundered long rumblingly over all the heavens so that Master Madden, being godly certain whiles, knocked him on his ribs upon that crack of doom and Master Bloom, at the braggart's side spoke to him calming words to slumber his great fear, advertising how it was no other thing but a hubbub noise that he heard, the discharge of fluid from the thunderhead, look you, having taken place, and all of the order of a natural phenomenon.
>implying John Green would ever read something like Faulkner
