Bryusov

Michel Butor – “I do not care for Butor.”

Albert Camus – “It is a shame he [Franz Hellens] is read less than that awful Monsieur Camus.”

Cervantes (”a cruel and crude book”)

Joseph Conrad – “I cannot abide Conrad’s souvenir-shop style” – “I differ from Joseph Conradically.”

Theodore Dreiser

Fyodor Dostoevsky (his best work is The Double, “a shameful imitation of Gogol’s The Nose“) – “I dislike intensely The Karamazov Brothers and the ghastly Crime and Punishment“

Ilya Ehrenberg

T S Eliot – “the not quite first-rate”

William Faulkner – “Faulkner’s corncobby chronicles”

John Galsworthy

Nikolai Gogol (Ukrainian stories only) – “at his worst … he is a worthless writer”

Maxim Gorky

Ernest Hemingway (except for “The Killers” and “the wonderful fish story”)

Henry James – “I really dislike him intensely”, apart from the odd turn of phrase

James Joyce (Finnegans Wake, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, but not Ulysses) – “I detest Punningans Wake” – “the unfortunate Finnegans Wake is nothing but a formless and dull mass of phony folklore, a cold pudding of a book, a persistent snore in the next room, most aggravating to the insomniac” – “Actually, I never liked A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I find it a feeble and garrulous book.”

Nikos Kazantzakis

D H Lawrence (Lady Chatterley’s Lover certainly)

Lorca

Thomas Mann (the “asinine” Death in Venice certainly)

Odoevski

Boris Pasternak – “Pasternak’s melodramatic and vilely written Zhivago”

Plato

Luigi Pirandello – “I never cared for Pirandello”

Ezra Pound – “the pretentious nonsense of Mr.Pound, that total fake”

Romain Rolland

Jean-Paul Sartre – “and even more awful [than Camus] Monsieur Sartre.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Leo Tolstoy (others) – “I detest Resurrection, I detest The Kreutzer Sonata … War and Peace, though a little too long, is a rollicking historical novel”, though basically written for children

Thomas Wolfe

Yevgeny Yevtushenko -”I’ve seen his work. Quite second-rate. He’s a good Communist.”

Yevgeny Zamyatin

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1289879&forum_id=2#14781718)

also isn't there an etymologic cxn between "palestine" and "philistine"? props to both for battling the jews regardless

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1289879&forum_id=2#14781862)

* John Barth

* Thomas Pynchon

O SNAP

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1289879&forum_id=2#14781783)

and what did he like?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1289879&forum_id=2#14781744)

Andrei Bely – “Petersburg is a splendid fantasy”

Bergson

Alexander Blok

Robert Browning

Lewis Carroll

Anton Chekhov

Norman Douglas

Emerson

Gustave Flaubert

Franz Kafka

Nikolai Gogol (non-Ukrainian stories)- “at his best, he is incomparable and inimitable”

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Franz Hellens – “Speaking of precursors of the New Novel, there is F H, a Belgian, who is very important … I tried to get someone in the States to publish him … but nothing came of it.”

Housman

Ilf and Petrov

James Joyce (Ulysses, at least – not Finnegans Wake)

John Keats

Jorge Luis Borges – “Borges is … a man of infinite talent”

Hermann Melville

Osip Mendalstam

John Milton

Yuri Olesha

Edgar Allen Poe (but only as a youth)

Proust

Pushkin

Raymond Queneau – “Q’s Exercises in Style is a thrilling masterpiece and, in fact, one of the greatest stories in French Literature. I am also very fond of Q’s Zazie.”

Rimbaud

Alain Robbe-Grillet – “His fiction is magnificently poetical and original”

J D Salinger

William Shakespeare

Laurence Sterne – “I love Sterne”

Leo Tolstoy (some) – “I consider Anna Karenin the supreme masterpiece of c19th literature. It is closely followed by The Death of Ivan Ilyich … “

Ivan Turgenev

John Updike

Verlaine

H G Wells – “his romances and fantasias are superb”, “a writer for whom I have the deepest admiration is HGW … I could talk endlessly about Wells”

Mikhail Zoshchenko

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1289879&forum_id=2#14781770)

And I'm sure he doesn't "hate" Plato. That would make no sense. Who hates Plato? I can't even imagine that having content. Who evaluates Plato aesthetically? Who is in a position to? Not Nabokov, certainly.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1289879&forum_id=2#14782088)

Plenty of people find Plato distasteful.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1289879&forum_id=2#14782174)

Who cares. Was Nietzsche trained in philosophy?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1289879&forum_id=2#14782467)

At any rate, Nietzsche took Plato extremely seriously, and dedicated a good part of his scholarship to subverting Platonic dialogues. Whatever we might say of this kind of patricide, I don't think it's the facile "hatred" of one who just thinks, "Dur, what a dumbass. He was wrong about, like, a lot of stuff." To know Plato in any capacity is to respect him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1289879&forum_id=2#14784611)

Also? You're confusing philology with philosophy. Here is the fuller quote by the other guy. WHy not read what Nietzsche said about Plato?

For heaven's sake, do not throw Plato at me. I am a complete skeptic about Plato, and I have never been able to join in the admiration for the artist Plato which is customary among scholars. In the end, the subtlest judges of taste among the ancients themselves are here on my side. Plato, it seems to me, throws all stylistic forms together and is thus a first-rate decadent in style: his responsibility is thus comparable to that of the Cynics, who invented the satura Menippea. [1] To be attracted by the Platonic dialogue, this horribly self-satisfied and childish kind of dialectic, one must never have read good French writers—Fontenelle, for example. [2] Plato is boring. [3]

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1289879&forum_id=2#14784669)

(2) I feel like we're going to have to disagree on the way 19th century philology was done and the extent to which it incorporated philosophical training. Moreover, whatever one thinks of, you know, Nietzsche-level genius, my comment re: training and knowledge of Plato were intended to apply to the wider congress of thinking people. Language tends to admit of exceptions in this way.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1289879&forum_id=2#14785802)

PWN PWN PWN

There's something great about seeing a notoriously nice poster just lay down a savage slam

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1289879&forum_id=2#14785032)

Link?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1289879&forum_id=2#14786952)

http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html

#3 on the board's list, #57 on the reader's list lollll let's defer to the critics on this one man

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1289879&forum_id=2#14783107)

I do not like Russian literature at all and I think Fyodor is a representation of everything about it that I detest.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1289879&forum_id=2#14785299)

No he wasn't.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1289879&forum_id=2#14786953)

Kitsh.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1289879&forum_id=2#14786912)