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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Middlemarch owns, to be fair, but yeah, Nabokov’s hot literature takes aren’t always worth taking too seriously.
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Nabokov was a snob who preferred French syntax translated into Russian, like how Tolstoy generally wrote.
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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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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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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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He thought Faulkner was a terrible stylist too.
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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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F Scott Fitzgerald
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