They surely have literally merits, but I think that gnostic charm or aura is dangerous. It's not exclusive to these people, Jack London as a staunch communist was even worse. There is an underlying themes among all these people.
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they psychologize or misappropriate things which are supposed to be impersonal. But there are tons of male writers who remain aloof to their ideologies when writing books or systematically shed their psychologism as they become mature.
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Ex. compare two authors living around the same period in Japan Kyusaku Yumeno and Mishima. For Mishima the Avantgarde literature is just a style that he can put in the service of his psyche and ideology. But for Yumeno, it is the expression of the impersonal forces of modernity.
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Yumeno never received the popularity of Mishima even tho his books were far more avant-garde and exciting, because he never resorted to the cult of personality that Mishima was calculatedly cultivating around himself.
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Start with Dogra Magra
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @Trashwomann
You have a hell for flashy writers. I get it ;) extravaganza be damned.
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Replying to @lesoiseauxduml @Trashwomann
Yet my all time favorites are Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Melville
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @Trashwomann
You're over-matured i must say :)) one time we should talk over Tolstoy's attempts to reform russian agricultural state through anna karenina.
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Replying to @lesoiseauxduml @Trashwomann
I remember in one summer when I was teenager, I read war and peace three times. I know many young Russians hate it because they were forced to read it. But it is a book that every page indicates there is something cosmic and irreversible afoot.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @Trashwomann
sir, that's just immensely hyperbolical. i mean, it is a great book, every one agrees. but it's like how beethoven is great. you see? :) and Karenina is his best by any means.
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Greatness is always hyperbolical to the eyes of puny writers like us. Well, I'm not going to argue re his best work. Also his writings on education, nothing beats them other Vygotsky's work.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @Trashwomann
as an all-around puny writer i must say that some greatnesses haven't seemed hyperbolical to me tho. they usually tend to be on the more "feminine" thread. i prefer the bed-ridden, self-indulged, swampy Proust, among the giants for example.
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Replying to @lesoiseauxduml @Trashwomann
You sure will be a great friend with Thomas Murphy who is missing in action on twitter. Bunch of proust-lovers.
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