Gustave Flaubert on George Sand:
“A great cow full of ink.”Gertrude Stein on Ezra Pound:
“A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.”Friedrich Nietzsche on Dante Alighieri:
“A hyena that wrote poetry on tombs.”
Vladimir Nabokov on Fyodor Dostoevsky:
“Dostoevky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity — all this is difficult to admire.”
Virginia Woolf on Aldous Huxley:
“All raw, uncooked, protesting.”
Joseph Conrad on D.H. Lawrence:
“Filth. Nothing but obscenities.”
Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac:
“That’s not writing, that’s typing.”
Virginia Woolf on James Joyce:
“[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.”^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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