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19307111 No.19307111 [Reply] [Original]

He said: "the writer's job, that of literature, in my view, is a pretty miserable one. It's practiced by people convinced that it is a magnificent job. And there it lies a bestial paradox... I don't know why they don't see it. The writer's job is populated by scoundrels who are jerks as well"

Was he right?

>> No.19307141

Fortunately even if he is right it doesn't matter because writers don't have coworkers.

>> No.19307144
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19307144

LEER BOLAÑO?

MÁS PREFIERO Y MEJOR

COMER BUÑUELO.


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>> No.19307145

>>19307111
yes being a writer is basically accepting poverty

>> No.19307160

No, writing isn't a job it's a craft. He can't conceived of writing without someone reading it which means he is a jester and a clown. Nothing Bolano says has any worth, he is of the ilk of Camus, Marquez, and so forth; a sort of low-iq yet unconventionally handsome phenotype people take seriously because of one book, albeit substanceless, they wrote which caught on. He's a non-entity, I've heard lots of puff from this man in every interview. Better than his American contemporarily counterparts, however.

>> No.19307213

>>19307160
Writing isn't a craft; it's an art.

>> No.19307218

>>19307213
a craft is an art, but only a job by necessity.

>> No.19307297

>>19307160
>yet unconventionally handsome

>> No.19307326

>>19307160
>people take seriously because of one book
two, actually.

>> No.19307378

Bolaño is like a talented fuguet

>> No.19307388

>>19307160
>He can't conceived of writing without someone reading it which means he is a jester and a clown.
Never understood why /lit/ is infested with opinions like this, clearly from highminded people who think they know something important about literature, yet piss themselves with rage at readers daring to exist.

>> No.19307396

>>19307388
Because he is a clown like Dickens, a jester for the public, what his occupation is at that point is irrelevant.

>>19307297
Camus' popularity is only because he looks like a cool guy.

>>19307326
The second one doesn't count since he died before it was published.

>> No.19307403

this man, in my country, he is nothing.

>> No.19307440

>>19307403
where are you from?

>> No.19307459

>>19307403
es el autor que te lees para tirarte a una mina que lee

>> No.19307530

>>19307218
I disagree.

>> No.19307538

>>19307530
why

>> No.19307631

>>19307538
I don't believe that a craft is an art. A craft can certainly be an art, but it is not necessarily or intrinsically an art. Craft exists independent of art. Writing, and by extension literature, is not a craft. In fact, it is probably the least crafty arts. I'm of the belief that terms like "the craft of writing" are used by midwits in an attempt to belittle the art form they are least familiar with.

>> No.19307672

>>19307326
three if you count nazi literature in the americas

>> No.19308004

>>19307144
You are a disgusting pedo. I can only imagine the fat ugly beaner that you are jerking off over cp.

>> No.19308019

>>19308004
He's a skinny pencil neck. everything else you said is true though.

>> No.19309095

>>19307160
I hate Bolaño but dude you're not Nabokov