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O'Brien Never Created Art
Apr. 3rd, 2007 09:51 am"Nabokov told Playboy that the pleasures of writing
correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading, the bliss, the felicity of a phrase is shared by writer and reader: by the satisfied writer and the grateful reader. . . . I write mainly for artists, fellow-artists and follow-artists." - From a paper on Nabokov
And that is why I can't love "The Things They Carried", or the likes of it; they're not art, they simply save their makers from going mad. O'Brien didn't write for artists, will never write for artists, he writes to survive and keep from adding a digit to the number of dead veterans.
Addendum: Started Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway" (She's currently buying the notorious flowers) last night. The style is amazing, I can't quite beleive she pulled it of.
correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading, the bliss, the felicity of a phrase is shared by writer and reader: by the satisfied writer and the grateful reader. . . . I write mainly for artists, fellow-artists and follow-artists." - From a paper on Nabokov
And that is why I can't love "The Things They Carried", or the likes of it; they're not art, they simply save their makers from going mad. O'Brien didn't write for artists, will never write for artists, he writes to survive and keep from adding a digit to the number of dead veterans.
Addendum: Started Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway" (She's currently buying the notorious flowers) last night. The style is amazing, I can't quite beleive she pulled it of.
