tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post4616801282849612999..comments2024-03-15T02:14:38.309-07:00Comments on bloginafog: A different kind of grain.Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-26722908290919502262015-04-28T04:55:47.495-07:002015-04-28T04:55:47.495-07:00Huysmans was not half the writer Céline was - or J...Huysmans was not half the writer Céline was - or Junger for that matter. And Kafka was no mean misanthropist-humorist. Moreover I have absolutely no connection with the people and milieu that he writes about, the same kind of people that lie like lead upon the pages of Proust. ("Je suis Charlus-Homo" - only joking!)<br /><br />Maupassant is also misanthropist and much more readable. Des Esseintes is a bore I would like to kick in the balls by page fifty.<br /><br />I also find Joyce's Ulysses unreadable for similar reasons : I cannot connect with the characters any more than I can with those of de Sade. Indeed I think that the very uneven (and sometimes pompous) Henry Miller was a much greater and more original writer...Woflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-83006835715940016472015-04-28T00:19:39.577-07:002015-04-28T00:19:39.577-07:00Unreadable! Oh the shame, Anthony, to denigrate of...Unreadable! Oh the shame, Anthony, to denigrate of the greatest misanthropic novels ever penned.Karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16333013979246343381noreply@blogger.com