>If he’d been born south of the border, he’d be up for a Nobel Prize. >If ‘The Last Castle’ or ‘The Dragon Masters’ had the name Italo Calvino on it, or just a foreign name, it would be received as a profound meditation. Is this true?

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Anonymous Sun Aug 27 16:37:38 2017 No.9945966 [Reply] [Original]

>If he’d been born south of the border, he’d be up for a Nobel Prize.
>If ‘The Last Castle’ or ‘The Dragon Masters’ had the name Italo Calvino on it, or just a foreign name, it would be received as a profound meditation.
Is this true?

Anonymous Sun Aug 27 16:52:25 2017 No.9946017

As a massive Vance fan, I don't think so. He's the undisputed king of pulp and writes with excellent prose. Not Joyce levels of course, but pretty damn up there. But no matter how fun his stories are, they're not on the same level of Faulkner or Calvino.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 27 17:20:24 2017 No.9946105 >>9946017 The comment is from Michael Chabon by the way.

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