Worst slop since James Joyce started vomiting words on a page.No, adding more violence doesn't make anything deep, meaningful or insightful. It just makes it Hallmark-tier slop aimed at manchildren.
>>24828710Never read him but for some excerpts posted here. Don't want to.
>>24828710At least Corncob attempts to tell a story thoever
>>24828710You can write well about two things: death or fucking, and fucking is the domain of pornographers.
>>24828710>adding more violenceWe get it you only read Blood Meridian. Actually I don't believe you've read anything by him at all. His best work Suttree has hardly any violence.
>>24828710>Worst slop since James Joyce started vomiting words on a page.I thought he's the most respected prose stylist with Nabokov
>>24828710Writers like him, Joyce and Nabokov are a necessary part of art education, kids need to see how an artist can create certain affects, then when they age they should discard it. Unfortunately most are forever children now. I owe a lot of my understanding of the world to his works but I do not enjoy them anymore at all and could never waste my time writing them.
>>24828904Everything you've heard is a lie, such has been the case since at least 1900.
>>24828710No one else writes like him. After I finished his bibliography I felt lost. Imagine listening to one Jazz album but it's the only Jazz album to ever exist. How tragic that would be.
>>24828710Is there a critique of Cornpops use of violence that isn't just "I think its icky and the MEN that find it cool are icky too?"because to be honest I have yet to see one
>>24828933I think his career is just pages and pages of miserable rambling, to no purpose. He's dead all the same. Could've spent the time with his true love or making works which alleviated the supernal angst of kids similar to him. He was an agent of discomfort, worthless legacy to leave.
>>24828710>>24828722>>24828933He wasn't even a real southerner>yankee born, irish catholic by blood>wealthy lawyers son, grew up in a large house and went to an upstanding high school>degree in liberal arts at a good college>urbanite who never experienced violence in his life>proto woke (see suttree)>chose to larp as a poor southern hillbilly
>>24828710> ruined American literatureAmerican literature has always been trash. You fat mutts have never produced anything of value outside of weapons for your Israeli masters.
>>24828970Do you think that this difference allowed him to write about the south in a unique way? That he was not born into it, but chose it?
>>24829040Herman is great. Seethe.
>>24828710The counter reaction is really peaking lately.
