>Camus, Albert.
Dislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me. Awful.
>Dostoevsky, Fyodor.
Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.The Double. His best work, though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose."
The Brothers Karamazov. Dislike it intensely.
Crime and Punishment. Dislike it intensely. Ghastly rigmarole.
>Faulkner, William.
Dislike him. Writer of corncobby chronicles. To consider them masterpieces is an absurd delusion. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.
>Freud, Sigmund.
A figure of fun. Loathe him. Vile deceit. Freudian interpretation of dreams is charlatanic, and satanic, nonsense.
>Hemingway, Ernest.
A writer of books for boys. Certainly better than Conrad. Has at least a voice of his own. Nothing I would care to have written myself. In mentality and emotion, hopelessly juvenile. Loathe his works about bells, balls, and bulls.The Killers. Delightful, highly artistic. Admirable.
>Finnegans Wake.
A formless and dull mass of phony folklore, a cold pudding of a book. Conventional and drab, redeemed from utter insipidity only by infrequent snatches of heavenly intonations. Detest it. A cancerous growth of fancy word-tissue hardly redeems the dreadful joviality of the folklore and the easy, too easy, allegory. Indifferent to it, as to all regional literature written in dialect. A tragic failure and a frightful bore.
>Kazantzakis, Nikos.
Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up.
>Lawrence, D. H.
Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. Mediocre. Fakes realism with easy platitudes. Execrable.
>Mann, Thomas.
Dislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up.Death in Venice. Asinine. To consider it a masterpiece is an absurd delusion. Poshlost. Mediocre, but anyway plausible.
>Pound, Ezra.
Definitely second-rate. A total fake. A venerable fraud.
>Sartre, Jean-Paul.
Even more awful than Camus.Nausea. Second-rate. A tense-looking but really very loose type of writing.
>Wilde, Oscar.
Rank moralist and didacticist. A favorite between the ages of 8 and 14. Essentially a writer for very young people. Romantic in the large sense.
>>7979770
These are very strong opinions
>>7979770
Good job OP
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i agree with his opinions on dostoevsky and camus the most
it appears that great minds think alike
Nabokov truly had the best bantz.
>tfw you will never publish a masterpiece and have Nabokov shit all over it...
Feels bad, man.
>>7979770
>Freudian interpretation of dreams is charlatanic
really expected more of nabby 2bh.
I was planning on ordering Lolita from the library, but if this guy is such a prick maybe I shouldn't read his pedo porn
>>7979822
>he fell for the psychoanalysis meme
>>7979833
Nah, not even that. Just awful grounds for dismissal.
>>7979833
only plebs refute psycholanalysis. You won't ever meet someone educated telling you "lol freudian theories are bullshit xD"
>>7979863
Depends on whether they were educated in the English department or the department of psychiatry/neuroscience.
>>7979824
Pale Fire
I think last time somebody wrote Nabokov criticisms of modern authors too
>>7979824
If you choose your books based on your personal opinion of the author you're not even intelligent enough to read it.
>likes Hawthorne, Melville, Rimbaud, Housman, Flaubert, Joyce, Keats, Updike, and Tolstoy
>hates Eliot, Woolf, and Lawrence
God tier taste tbqh
>>7979860
Being a pile of horseshit is "awful grounds for dismissal"? Are you high?
>>7979863
0/10.
>>7980181
George Eliot or T.S. Eliot?
>>7980214
both ;)
How do you think Nabby would respond to being called a fat, balding cuck? I'm sure he'd pretend it didn't phase him and refer to the accuser as highly immature then cry deeply when he's alone.
>>7979770
I might agree with what he says about other authors but it is weird that he has done what he accuses others of doing.
"The King, Queen, and Knave" is the most second-rate novel if there has ever been one. If you are going to try and write NTR at least make it interesting.
>>7980244
i dont think he would even acknowledge such a meaningless meme insult from some illiterate neckbeard
>>7980295
But what if I mailed him letters of my shit and harassed him in public?
>>7979887
"I was the shadow of the lapwing slain\
By the false azure in the window pane."
>Thinks he's a bird
>Rhyming monosyllable words
>Pretentious as fuck (lol, azure, lol)
Top lines from old Nabby, how does he do it, smart man, hats are off and tipping Americans as we speak
>>7979770
I didn't know Robert Christagau had started reviewing books.
>>7980324
Ulysses - scissor, two bombs
>>7980308
>i was like a bird flying into a window
>>7980308
Read the whole book, asshat.
>>7980244
Honestly I feel like he's the type of person who gets disproportionately upset at people using the fedora meme.
Like just a picture of a guy tipping his hat, nothing else. It'd enrage him, to think he gave the time of day to a memer.
>Rank moralist and didacticist
This speaks about his tastes. He's an edgy faggot who hates some good morals around him. If your book is truly well written and interesting but has a message of nice intent, then this faggot will hate it.
>>7980349
>well-written social comment poshlost book
Wrote no one ever.
>>7980349
Wilde was a degenerate homosexual and anarchist.
>>7980358
So... Infinite Jest is shit?
Most greek philosophy?
Or is this bait?
>>7980362
Infinite Jest is shit and I haven't even read it.
>>7980362
>Infinite Jest
The book is not centered around a "message" though like you could say of 1984 or such other mediocre novels. Having social questions inserted in your book is not the problem.
>Greek philosophy
I meant fiction books, obviously, as does Nabokov when he says social comment is poshlost.
>>7980389
The book is a lot about anti-entertainment, though.
>>7980400
And Bend Sinister is a lot about tyranny and bureaucracy. What matters is that some novelists submit their whole books to "teaching" something as if their novels were didactic books, and that is terrible mediocrity. I think it's even worse when you're talking about playwrights because things like the well-made plays are just manifestly didactic and formulaic, whereas novelists at least insert episodes which are independent of the "message" usually.
>>7980421
Shit mang
I agree with this guy, I hate preachy lesson of the day novels
>>7980337
>I was a useless cripple for most of my youth and shouldn't have spread my degenerate genes around
>But I did anyway, lol
>As expected, offspring's ugly as fuck, gains /r9k/ status and an heros
>Start getting groomed by this weird foreigner who fellates me in ways my wife doesn't
>Best write a shoddy Pope rip-off about how I think I'm a bird
Truly great insight into the human condition, Nabby best author of all time, are others even trying? Lol, no, have bantzs XDXDXD
The question isn't if preachy novels are bad, it's whether Wilde is preachy. I mean the guy wrote that "An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style".
>>7980439
why haven't you commit suicide yet?
>>7979770
DELET
>>7980308
>lapwing
According to King, Ackroyd's approach to reviewing was refreshingly straightforward: "One of his main requirements was that he wanted one to say disobliging things, which I quite welcomed. He thought there were a lot of people who didn't say what they really thought because they were nervous of giving offence. He didn't want any beating around the bush." Ackroyd's own reviews certainly followed this template, dismissing Auden's poetry as "dreadful stuff", accusing Nabokov of the literary equivalent of "playing with himself" and blasting Mishima: "This is not writing, this is Barbara Cartland - and Barbara Cartland at least has the courage not to commit hara-kiri over it."
>>7980988
tryhard
>>7979770
>corncobby chronicles
I laugh every time I read this.
Does anyone know what he thought of Wallace Stevens?
I'm just curious
>>7981117
>Dislike him. ephemeral. puffed-up. second-rate.
Does anybody actually dislike Flaubert ? Even his French contemporaries and contrarians like Nabokov and Bloy respected him.
>>7981259
He reinvented the novel. He took what Cervantes et al did, and turned it into an art form.
>>7979770
You're right about Oscar wilde in one sense. I was a big fan of his at 14.
>>7980181
He likes all the boring ones that require no thought at all, goes to show
>>7981401
>Woolf and Lawrence require thought
Nabokov would be shitposting here on lit if he were 18
He'd dislike his own work if it was written by somebody else. He's a pretentious jackass but I admire him.
>>7980244
he's the literal exact opposite of a cuck
you fucking wish you could have a vera in your life
>>7981721
sometimes i do think it would be worth it to marry a jew for connections
>>7979824
"I was planning on ordering Lolita" I feel like this is becoming a meme around here
>>7981259
>Does anybody actually dislike Flaubert ?
Only in french threads, unsurprisingly.
>>7979770
>being this assblasted that you're only relevant for writing a book banking on the shock value of fucking little girls
>>7982060
>posting tiddies to get attention on an irrelevant image board for NEETs
>>7981794
yeah, welcome to newfags from /mu/ turning 18 and wanting to shit up another board for easy """"""""""""""""""""""""art"""""""""""""""""""""""
>>7982032
I meant other authors. Makes sense that retards who don't actually read and only studied Flaubert briefly in school would hate him.
>>7980244
I laughed. I just finished "speak, memories" and I quite agree.
>>7979873
rekt
>>7982080
>looking at a man's breasts
>>7979770
*yawns*
You are trying too hard.
I bet he wasn't even a real pedophile, just trying to be contrarian.
>>7979770
>camus
>ephemeral
isn't that the point of his work?
