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10287634 No.10287634 [Reply] [Original]

>he appreciates Homer
>he appreciates Shakespeare
>he appreciates Cervantes
>he appreciates Proust
>he doesn't appreciate Dunsany
>he doesn't appreciate Poe
>he doesn't appreciate Peake
>he doesn't appreciate Wolfe

>> No.10287641

What was meant by this post?

>> No.10287648
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10287648

>he doesn't appreciate Tolkien

Tolkien is the Homer of the modern age. It's ridiculous that LotR is often written off as a "good story" and nothing more, like a Dumas novel. If Homer wrote The Odyssey today I'm sure it would receive the same treatment.

>> No.10287669

>>10287641
That "genre fiction" or "fantasy", "sci-fi" is a meaningless category used to ghettoize some of the greats.

>> No.10287674

>>10287648
If Homer wrote the Odyssey today people would be amazed at his mastery of Epic Greek.

>> No.10287690

>>10287674
You know what I meant. Imagine if Rabelais wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel today, would it be written off as "genre shit"? Wolfe is even an author with Rabelaisan traits as he offers accounts of social commentary, unrepressed bawdiness, parody, storytelling involving stories within stories, plays within stories, creative use of dead languages, bees examined alongside owls (book 1 of botns, and book 5 of rabelais), and giants ruining everyone else's shit.