[lbo-talk] art's objectivity (tangent on faulkner thread)

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 3 10:12:29 PDT 2006


--- Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Chris,
>
> Both Tolstoy and Joyce could write well and
> elegantly. Dostoevsky wrote
> with hammer and fist.

Not in Russian he doesn't. Why do you hate good art, Jerry? ;)

Carrol:

But is he up there with Faulkner & Dickens & Austen & Stendahl & Richardson? There is a sort of psedo-complexity in Dostoievsky while the complexity of Austen & Stendahl is real & rooted in reality, not personal quirks.

Carrol

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Not in terms of complexity, but complexity does not equal good literature.

(Joyce is far, far, far, far more complex than Faulkner & Dickens & Austen & Stendahl & Richardson. Nobody is more complex than Joyce. He did that deliberately.)

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