Va prezentam in urma cu ceva timp o selectie a celor mai dure (dar amuzante) insulte de la autor la autor. Se pare ca lista a cauzat multe reactii, astfel incat cei de la Flavorwire au revenit cu o serie noua de vorbe grele, adunate din comentariile utilizatorilor site-ului.

De data acesta, voi lasa insultele in forma lor originala, pentru ca traducerea le poate diminua farmecul.

– Mary McCarthy despre Lillian Hellman: “Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.”
– H.G. Wells despre Henry James: “A hippopotamus trying to pick up a pea.”
– H.L. Mencken despre Gertrude Stein: “It is the great achievement of Miss Stein that she has made English easier to write and harder to read.”
– William Gass despre Jay McInerney: “The advantage to writing this slack is that the writer can’t hang himself with any length of it.”
– Mark Twain despre Jane Austen: “Jane Austen’s books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn’t a book in it.”
– Gore Vidal despre ”The Prisoner of Sex” de Norman Mailer: “Like three days of menstrual flow.”
– Tom Wolfe despre John Irving, John Updike and Norman Mailer: “I think of the three of them now — because there are now three — as Larry, Curly and Moe… It must gall them a bit that everyone — even them — is talking about me.”
– Dorothy Parker despre “Atlas Shrugged” de Ayn Rand: “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
– V.S. Naipaul despre Henry James: “You only have to look at that dreadful American man Henry James. The worst writer in the world actually.”
– Flannery O’Connor despre “To Kill a Mockingbird” (Sa ucizi o pasare cantatoare) de Harper Lee: “I think for a child’s book it does all right. It’s interesting that all the folks that are buying it don’t know they’re reading a child’s book. Somebody ought to say what it is.”
– Ernest Hemingway despre James Jones: “To me he is an enormously skillful fuck-up and his book will do great damage to our country. Probably I should re-read it again to give you a truer answer. But I do not have to eat an entire bowl of scabs to know they are scabs; nor suck a boil to know it is a boil; nor swim through a river of snot to know it is snot. I hope he kills himself as soon as it does not damage his or your sales.”
– Stephen King despre Stephenie Meyer: “Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people… The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
– Lawrence Durrell despre Henry James: “If I were asked to choose between reading Henry James and having my head pressed between two stones, I’d choose the latter.”
– Mark Twain despre Henry James: “Once you’ve put one of his books down, you simply can’t pick it up again.”

Concluzia: Saracul Henry James!

Cine ar fi crezut ca acest subiect este unul atat de ofertant? Eu, cu siguranta nu!

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