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Originally Posted by Luffy
It's wrong to pretend that's it's near improbable to know when certain books are going to be labelled as classics in the future. Fans of Dickens and Doyle knew instantly
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I doubt it. I suspect Dickens’ and Doyle’s fans just looked forward to the next installment or story without thinking of posterity, and that classics to their mind were more along the lines of the literature of classical antiquity, the Elizabethans, the Restoration (except that much of it would have been too salacious for Victorian tastes) and up to the 18th century essayists. In any case, I’m choosing to scratch my head over, “It’s wrong to pretend,” rather than be insulted. Why is it wrong to hold an opinion, and whyever would you say that I don’t really hold my stated opinion?
If you want anecdotal evidence of how it’s impossible to know what will last, take a look at the early Nobelists in literature. Some have lasted, but many have been deservedly forgotten. Even recent choices have met with a lot of contention.
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and so do fans of Harry Potter.
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Well, the proof of that will be in time. See Nobelists, above.