Why are you still drawing lines about "high" and "low" istead of evaluating each work on its merits?

>>7828110
That's if you are lucky enough to find a story, a plot, or something to make you continue reading beyond the author's own self-satisfaction.

I read Hunger, by Knut Hamsun a couple of months ago, and there was nothing except the character's madness that made the book entertaining.

Literary fiction is the only genre where the author needn't research anything: his own self-reliance and hubris are enough to make his own sail swell, and swell those of the readers who feel smug enough reading such fiction.

It's bourgeois. Therefore it's hip, and cool, and Patrician. This posing is killing the world.

>>7828117
Merit is a spook.

>>7828110
I think it's actually more due to a kind of reverence for authenticity which intellectuals assume is present in lower class people because those are the ones they least identify with and they hate themselves.

>>7828173
no, that dichotomy is the spook
>>7828110
>>referencing both high and low culture
>lol it's now immediately the lowest of lowbrow
>>7828180
probably something like this though