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    1. Matthew Zeitlin‏Verified account @MattZeitlin 24 Oct 2019

      in the way that Bob Dylan is a "good-bad" singer, who are "good-bad" writers? Are people whose prose has notable deficiencies — Lovecraft and Dick are two obvious examples — great in spite of their writing or does their....idiosyncratic....style productively work with their ideas

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    2. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 24 Oct 2019
      Replying to @MattZeitlin

      The obvious one - although it's in translation, so who knows? - is Dostoevsky.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Oct 2019
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @MattZeitlin

      Nabokov thought Dostoevsky was a terrible stylist & I'm willing to trust him on this.

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        2. Oliver Crane‏ @RecordoftheTime 24 Oct 2019
          Replying to @BranchDerridean @HeerJeet and

          Middlemarch owns, to be fair, but yeah, Nabokov’s hot literature takes aren’t always worth taking too seriously.

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        1. WAM!ckee‏ @mckee_arthur 24 Oct 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JamesSurowiecki @MattZeitlin

          Nabokov was a snob who preferred French syntax translated into Russian, like how Tolstoy generally wrote.

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        1. Nicholas Slayton‏ @NSlayton 24 Oct 2019
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          I liked Dostoevsky's style simply because it had that looming Gothic, Poe-like atmosphere, just about Russian daily life and class. Odd styling, but it worked.

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        2. Dmitry Kovalchuk‏ @DmitryKovalchuk 24 Oct 2019
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          You are right! Dostoyevsky in Russian is very rough to read. One of possible reasons why he was writing this way: in his days he wasn't as popular as some other authors and had financial difficulties. It was common that a writer was paid per page. Due to this reason he tried..

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        3. Dmitry Kovalchuk‏ @DmitryKovalchuk 24 Oct 2019
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          to write in extra lengths. This is why his books feel too long. Not because of the number of pages but due to his style.

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        1. Patrick Jehle‏ @PatrickJehle1 24 Oct 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JamesSurowiecki @MattZeitlin

          He thought Faulkner was a terrible stylist too.

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        2. Rachel Klein‏ @racheleklein 24 Oct 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JamesSurowiecki @MattZeitlin

          But the lack of "style" gives his scenes such a pulsating vitality and make his characters feel so bumblingly, transcendently human! You couldn't write it another way and get NEAR the same effect, which is to say, yes, he's a very good example of this concept.

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        3. Ilyana Kuziemko‏ @ikuziemko 24 Oct 2019
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          F Scott Fitzgerald

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