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.
>>24828710No matter how much you hate his style, the amount of effort he puts into his work dwarfs most other writers, especially for Blood Meridian.While I understand everyone in this board belittles everything popular as a coping mechanism for this or that, that novel is a labor of love. I have read it twice and I've almost memorized the opening paragraph.It's based on a semi-historical account, and was elevated by the character of the judge, the kid, Toadvine etc. It does not shy away from language used at the time, it uses extremely accurate descriptions of clothes, of food, of politics, events, and especially the geography. The motherfucker learned Spanish and went through the path of the Glanton gang just for the novel.Also the Paradise Lost homage when the judge created gunpowder for the gang, that level of research done to facilitate that, while also being congruent to the flora and geology of the area is insane.You can say what you want about the style, but the story itself truly one of a kind.
>>24829040>Poe, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Melville, Whitman, Williams, Eliot, Crane, Frost, Ginsberg, Pynchon>trashSure thing, tranny.
>>24829304>Allen Ginsberg
He was great. It is a matter of overcoming romanticism and baroque decadence, which he allowed himself. But he was great.
>>24829304Really pushing it by the end of that list.
>>24829325>hatred of romanticismWhen is this meme going to die.
>>24829040Europoor here. Melville, Dickinson, James, Eliot, Faulkner, Gaddis, Pynchon and Corncob are all great. I hate burgers too, but they write great novels, better then the Brits. Shakespeare and Milton mog every American poet though.
>>24828710>McCarthy's style owes much to Faulkner's -- in its recondite vocabulary, punctuation, portentous rhetoric, use of dialect and concrete sense of the world -- a debt McCarthy doesn't dispute. "The ugly fact is books are made out of books," he says. "The novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written." His list of those whom he calls the "good writers" -- Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner -- precludes anyone who doesn't "deal with issues of life and death." Proust and Henry James don't make the cut. "I don't understand them," he says. "To me, that's not literature. A lot of writers who are considered good I consider strange."This guy was so retarded
>>24829428>The ugly fact is books are made out of booksIdk, I feel like there probably are some books made without relying on other books for content or structure. What Anna Karenina for instance?
>>24829511AK is Tolstoy's response to Madame Bovary.
