Go Short Round!



"you crazy, Docta Jones!"

 

Sancho Panza should win this one. He is the only one that is from a bona fiede legendary book that changed literature.

 

shortround drew samwise??? cmon shortround!!!

 

With characters from authors like Stoker, Doyle, Tolkein, Defoe, and Fleming...I don't know about that. All these guys had massive impacts on literature and the arts as a whole.

But for Latin American lit...yes you're right.:up:

 

Yeah, but the thing is Don Quijote is to Spanish language literature what say Shakespeare is to English literature, not only that it is considered the only modern novel ever to be written, and the first department from traditionalist ideas in what literature should or could accomplish..... (which is faaaaaaar more important in the history of literature than Stoker, Doyle, Tolkien, Defoe and Fleming, which to most literature people are mainly nice little, nitch writers not enourmous literature accomplishments)

 

Im curious...so says your NYU professor? i dont know that that is the common literary sentiment. Its easy to secularize and romanticize the term "novel" , and discredit many wonderful literary masterpieces in the process. That's your school of thought, and you're entitled to it.

Again, to call these guys "nice little nitch writers" is insulting, especially to Tolkein. Mind you, not Peter Jackson, but Tolkein. His books have reached more readers throughout the modern printing era than almost any other author. A tremendous percentage of young girls and boys grew up with his book in their homes.

I agree though, to Spanish lit. Quijote is a juggernaut.(and im not saying it isnt a tremendous contribution to world-wide lit.) i just think you were selling these other guys short.

 

He does, but do you throw away the whole competition because "Horatio" is one of the contestants?

 

I was just pointing out my favorite and the reasons I am voting for this. As for the literary importance of everyone I am going here on the basis of literary criticism and theorics. I understand the importance of characters like Sherlock and novels like the lord of the rings. But they don't take away from Doyle being a police novel writer (a very good one), Tolkien being a fantasy writer, Fleming being an adventure writer and Stoker being a horror/erotica writer. They have influenced said genres very much, but in the overall world of word play and literature, their works are minor.

Tolkien might have created a incredible world, and his novels are utterly enjoyable. But you don't hear Tolkien's name mentioned in the same breath as Joyce, McEwan, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Philip Roth, Henry Roth, Tony Morrison. Their importance in popular culture are amazing, their importance in literature itself... not that great.