C. S. Lewis on various other writers.
Nigger, can't you make your pictures upright?
>>24120399It’s a test for the reader. The sideways pictures are the ones most worth reading. But only those willing put in the work of turning their head deserve to read them.
>>24120357Based. Eliot's musings on what makes for good fiction are pure nonsense.
>>24120352Dumas was just a pulp writer essentially, but I swear that nearly every negative criticism of him i see reads so much more like anglo incomprehension than it does addressing of actual flaws
>>24120422>The sideways pictures are the ones most worth reading.>sideways picture: Whitman is shitYou are a faggot
Thanks. My neck needed that.
>>24120352>>24120353KEK, his critique of Dumas is really a critique of Tolkien.
This is horrible man. Remake the thread and rotate your pictures.
>>24120371>>24120376>Can it be--dare we hope-- that the ghastly mumbling and whining period in which you and I have lived nearly all our lives,is really coming to an end? Shall we see gold and scarlet and flutes and trumpets come back? bro...
>>24120366Accurate >>24120371>>24120376I'm curious what modernist novels he's referencing
>>24120509probably hemingway
>>24120553>letter dated 1916 oops, it's not Hemingway. This makes it a hard choice. No clue who it could be. Joyce, perhaps. Maybe Wolf. Sherwood Anderson? Maybe Knut Hamsun? He might not even mean modernism there. Modernism was very young in 1916, right?
>>24120498>>24120399I know it’s traditional to hate phoneposters, but taking pics of pages of books with a smartphone is one of the easiest ways to upload them here, and the stupid software here somehow automatically rotates the pages sideways, even if you’ve taken the photo as a normal upright one. Annoying, I confess, but thanks to the OP anyway, craned my neck a little for some and still enjoyed Lewis’s thoughts.
>>24120563Could be Thomas Mann.
What is the source?
This is what we've been reduced to: on the internet, in a web browser, built firstly and primarily for text, we have to read 2MB blurry JPEGs sideways because OP is too much of a faggot phoneposting zoomer to find the epub and paste things.
>>24120342Ah yes, thanks for sharing all these OP
>>24120342>Her books have only two faults and both are damnable.─ノ( º _ ºノ) huh?>They are too short and too few.(°□°)︵ ━ OOOOHHHHH
>>24120838On Writing (and Writers): A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions.
the conclusion is that tolstoy is truly the best
>>24120847kys
>>24120342Every library is a great library that contains no book by Jane Austin, even if it contains no other book at all.
>>24120353>"He doesn't describe the trees and clouds!"Man, Lewis really was a moron, wasn't he?
>>24120345>Emily Brontë's Jane Eyre
>>24120966>what is reading comprehension
>>24120977Lewis certainly didn't know
>>24120966>>24120978
>>24120987If his complaint is "he doesn't describe the background.... it's as if he had never seen a cloud or a road or a tree" then it means he is literally complaining that the author did not describe the trees and clouds. Pretty straightforward. Also a hilariously pedantic and moronic criticism.
>>24120993Anon, don't worry about them. It's not your fault. The education system failed you.
>>24120993I am still not sure if this is a brilliant bait or what
Where the hell is his opinion on Tolkien?
>Jane Austen>Her only defect is that her books are too few and too short Adding Lewis the list of based writers who loved Jane Austen. He and Chesterton recognised her genius.
>>24120995>>24120996Lewis' criticism is unbelievable sloppy and laughable in the way he phrased it. That is indisputable.
>>24121014Lewis, Chesterton, and Austen. Like a trinity of heinously overrated authors.
>>24120439Lewis is completely right. A novel should have a sense or atmosphere. Otherwise it turns into melodramatic soap opera filled with cliffhangers.
>>24121026So true sister! These overrated Christian authors unlike my blackpiller satanic literature pro-abortion from Twitter!
>>24121039Meds
>>24121021Is the irony deliberate?
>>24121021Buddy are you being real here because I can't tell.
>>24121048Share better authors than them, sister.
I thought you guys were smart
>>24120987Lewis's criticism of Dumas is akin to George R. R. Martin's "What was Aragorn's tax policy" criticism of Tolkien. Lewis is seething that Dumas didn't interpose pointless, momentum-halting chapters extensively explaining the political climate surrounding Richelieu and the King. It seems like Lewis was mad he had to learn about the history of a country he wasn't a native of, especially since the natives/Dumas's audience were already very familiar with that history and politics. Basically Lewis is seething that he is a midwit who has to put in effort to appreciate a text. It's shameful behavior from a so-called "intellectual" and "writer".
>>24121066Jane Austen was Christian and her father was a priest. Feminists don't have any claim on her for this reason because most are very anti religious. But aside from that she is just peak comfy, funny and genuinely witty. Her male characters are cool. Probably one of the best books I've read in my life. I suggest to get into it while reading something filled with action to make a contrast.
>>24121073you write like a strawman factory
>>24121085Feminists simply claim any woman that was not forgotten
Buy a scanner. They're not expensive.These photos are a pain in the ass to read.
>>24121073Your criticism is straw manning.>Lewis is seething that Dumas didn't interpose pointless, momentum-halting chapters extensively explaining the political climate surrounding Richelieu and the King.Lewis is criticizing the lack of distinction between places. London and Paris don't feel distinct. Most people consider setting as important in literature. There's a lack of complexity when you can't show the variety in places like what exists in real life. It's like how a YA writer would write.>But perhaps I am being too hard on what after all was written only for amusement. I suppose there must be a merit in the speed and verve of the plot, even if I don’t like that kind of thing.This is a man seething to you?>It's shameful behavior from a so-called "intellectual" and "writer".He's writing a personal letter. This isn't a treatise on poetics.
>>24120618>but taking pics of pages of books with a smartphone is one of the easiest ways to upload them here,Pirate an ebook version or scan the pages retard
>>24121122make your own thread with perfectly scanned pages
>>24120342>t. I can't be bothered to orient the pages correctlyJannys worth a damn would have pruned it after the last upload out of spite for you to do it right.
>>24121133I only scan things of value
>>24121142
>ahhhhhhh I have to stretch my neck nooooolmao for some of you this thread is the first exercise in years
>>24121133Okay. >>>24121158
>>24121112>>He's writing a personal letter. This isn't a treatise on poetics.>It's ok to provide disingenuous arguments when doing literary criticism, as long as it is to a friendBravo!
>>24121195Why is straw man your only argument?
>>24121136They looked right when I uploaded them. They just posted sideways for some reason. I’d try to fix it, but I already deleted them to save storage space.
>>24121283rotate your phone 90° counter-clockwise when taking the picture; or after taking a picture edit it to mirror it, save, and then edit it to mirror it again, and save.
>>24121028You've just done the same thing as him again. Dumas novels, for all their relative lowness of brow, have a strong sense of atmosphere. The anglo mind just struggles to comprehend atmosphere from character.The "has no connection with human nature" line is especially absurd, it makes it seem like Lewis had autism or something. To his credit he was still a better writer than Dumas.
>>24121374I'll add that Lewis's literalism craving autism also comes out in his "criticism" of Whitman, it just seems like he struggled with abstraction
>>24121169Lol
