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Overrated as fuck

>> No.13019006

>loves Hegel, Hawthorne, Melville, Tolstoy, Shakespeare
>shits on Marx, Cervantes, Dostoevsky, Faulkner
Absolutely based

>> No.13019009

Pedophile

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>>13019003
>”Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only its own self to copy.

As to Mandelstam, I also knew him by heart, but he gave me a less fervent pleasure. Today, through the prism of a tragic fate, his poetry seems greater than it actually is. I note incidentally that professors of literature still assign these two poets to different schools. There is only one school: that of talent.”

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“there is laughter in the vestibule of the temple, the echo of laughter in the temple itself, but only faith and prayer, and no laughter in the holy of holies“

>> No.13019030

"Overrated" is a buzzword. Is that your only critique?

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>>13019006
>loves Hegel
brainlet

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>>13019047
"The fact is that Spinoza is made a testing-point in modern philosophy, so that it may really be said: You are either a Spinozist or not a philosopher at all." -Hegel

>> No.13019079

>>13019003
Lolita is overrated, but Pale Fire is incredible and I’ve never read anything else like it. I don’t understand why Lolita is the one to get all the acclaim personally.
Also for anyone who has read them, are his other works worth reading?

>> No.13019085

>>13019079
Most of his English language novels are worth reading but some of the older Russian stuff suffers from poor translation or just not quite having the same magic. Ada and Pnin are good bets.