He fucking sucks as a writer. Sure, he has balls and makes some interesting points, but on a purely artistic level, his writing is trash. He has no sense of rhythm or musicality, no ability to construct a character that isn't an obvious self-insert, and no ability to imagine a compelling story. He constantly name drops classic writers and philosophers, as if he could even dream of being on the same level as them, and you retards lap it up, thinking that these vapid references mean that he's actually profound. His popularity is wholly just a result of a marketing scheme. You just like him because of his persona of being the "edgy, unhinged, politically incorrect" writer. If you just think he's an interesting person, fine. But if you actually think he's a good writer and "the greatest new artist of the 21th century", you are a literal sheep.
>>24813796Conservatives can't create good art
>>24813796If you -- like me -- read Michel Houellebecq in English, we wouldn't know how musical his prose is. I think he writes pleasantly. Modern.
>>24813796Truth nuke. He should be writing sociology books, not novels.
I'm an FSL but I thought his writing was greatI don't know why people shit on his style so much, he is very deadpan and hilarious
I think he has a few good books, but I grew out of his work over the years, then it was revealed he's a zionist an I can't read him now. For me, his poetry is the best thing he wrote. Can't be translated, though.
>>24813796Maybe the english translations suck? The swedish ones are pretty good so far. You've decided that characters and "compelling story" (whatever that means) are your criteria. As usual when someone makes grand bombastic claims they inadvertently torpedo half the canon. Dante sucks because he's done a self-insert and constantly references other writers and philosophers right? Oopsie. Well I guess you retreat to the bailey of "but the rhythm and musicality!". Whatever. Literary fiction as a genre is beset by self-inserts at that. Half the nobel prizes go to some twat writing about a writer or their own relationship issues, or other starving artist tripe. >oh but that's a new--Fuck you. Gorkij's My Universities, Hamsun's Hunger, Dosto's Notes from the House of the Dead/Underground, Turgenev's First Love. Do you even read?
>>24814095i posit to you that the swedish translators improved the texts out of pity
>>24814095>Oopsie>Whatever.Why do you write like a faggot?
>>24814011agree. the humour is slathered on thick but dark and easy to pass over if you don’t have the eye for it.
He was always regarded as somewhat styleless, wtf are you on about. Expecting an actual Huysmans? Do you also think Balzac was a good "Writer"?Compare with the average Goncourt and come back.>>24813802you can't know much about french literature, or poetry
