Thread: The Emptiness of 'Literary Fiction' and the Stereotyping of Genre Literature
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Old 06-18-2011, 09:15 AM   #55
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I gave up on Hesse after he butchered both Hinduism and Buddhism in Siddhartha. He now joins my list of 20th century lightweights alongside of Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, M. R. James, and Norman Mailer. Not that they all didn't have their moments (except Mailer), but their overall output is quite overrated.
Sometimes people of brilliance display a level of arrogance that is breathtaking, but they are forgiven this arrogance because of their brilliance. Other folks are just arrogant without anything to be arrogant about. Now, I know nothing about you, but where do you get off dismissing major figures of the 20th century literary canon? It certainly seems to put you in the second camp.
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