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

[Jerry Monaco]

On 10/3/06, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Chris,
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> > Both Tolstoy and Joyce could write well and
> > elegantly.  Dostoevsky wrote
> > with hammer and fist.
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> Not in Russian he doesn't. Why do you hate good art,
> Jerry? ;)
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> And it is exactly here, over this question of how Dostoevsky reads in
Russian that I picked up the Wilson-Nabokov letters, where the non-Russian
Wilson advocated that Dostoevsky read well in Russian and the Russian
Nabokov told Wilson that his (Wilson's and F.D.) Russian was atrocious.

But I was as much thinking about the architecture of the novel as a whole as
the line by line sentence construction.

You know, you ask me why I hate good art and it is kind of funny because I
once had the same reaction to some of Bert Brecht's opinions.  I mean Brecht
really hated Beethoven and I think he found much of German art pretentious.

I don't know, maybe in some respects I do hate good art with some of the
same reactions that Brecht had to Beethoven, who I love.

Jerry
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