Russian Writers had a tendency to touch the whole new realms of storytelling. With a Complex intermingling of Character Development as well as an intricate plot, they can make you chew your nails unlike British, and French authors who specialize in writing specialized Genre Novel with simplistic themes.
Except Flaubert, no other Western author could touch the brilliance of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, even in patches. Mind you, I have read most of the works of Dickens, Austen, and Shakespeare. And some of the current works appear so superficial when read in the backdrop of the Masterpieces like Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, and Anna Karenina.
Two of the Modern Authors, who have come remotely close to the Magicians Dostoevsky and Tolstoy in the richness of the Plot and the Characters are Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. But it is a sign of our times that Harry Potter, a seemingly ordinary novel has become a Mass Success. |
3 comments:
Aaah...here comes a Harry potter fan who doesnt mind flaunting the fact that his taste lacks the rich sophistication of yours..!!! :P
To each his/her own I say..!!
There is nothing to mind really. If I had been a huge fan of Doga at one point of time, am I to mind that extraordinary receptive stage of my life where I praised more than I criticize.
In fact, an act of liking or not liking is dependent on several factors, and Classification of Harry Potter as a Stylistically Ordinary work is only my personal opinion. But I do not feel like reading it just because it is popular, just as some of my other friends do.
Agree with you fully on this...I came laughing at my friends for 5 years saying that Harry Potter was kids stuff...then started reading the first book coz I wanted something to kil time with....& it gew on me bigtime...& then...there was no looking back..!!! :D
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