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3つの「good book with bad writing（悪筆だが傑作）」文学作品について。
日本作品では思いつかない…個人的に無茶苦茶読みづらい作家は居るけど別に傑作扱いされてもないからな…。
echo chamber
意味 エコールーム (放送· 録音用の共鳴壁のあるスタジオ).
It’s difficult to say exactly what makes someone a good writer, but it’s even harder to say what makes someone a bad writer. “The literary world,” Emily Temple of Lithub notes, “can be a bit of an echo chamber (…) if enough people say a book is ‘great,’ it becomes official. It becomes a Great Book, and horrified looks are administered to anyone who would dare disparage it.”
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/literature-writing-taste/
concur
意味 [～ that 節]…ということに同意する
Even so, many readers concur that there are a number of books that are horribly written despite also being astounding works of literature. At first, this may seem paradoxical. After all, how can a book be good and bad at the same time? The answer is complicated, but essentially boils down to the fact that Literature with a capital L is about much more than syntax or narrative development.
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/literature-writing-taste/
nobleman
意味 [C]上流階級の男性, 貴族 ((男女共用)noble, member of the nobility).
A popular example of a good book with bad writing is Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, which follows a seemingly insane Spanish nobleman-turned-knight on a quest to prove that chivalry is still alive. Published in 1605, the writing of Don Quixote — its full title being The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha — is drawn-out and convoluted, even for the time.
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/literature-writing-taste/
ドン・キホーテ読んだことないなー。
interpretation
意味 解釈; 説明 (すること)
Not everyone agrees with this interpretation, though, and some choose to believe that the book’s unreadability is intentional, rather than a reflection of Cervantes’ shortcomings as a writer. The nonsensical plot and the endless digressions, they argue, are not supposed to be taken at face value but as parodies on the “vain and empty books of chivalry” with which Don Quixote himself is obsessed.
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/literature-writing-taste/
わざと読みにくくするって難しいよね…主人公の支離滅裂さを文体で表すってすご。
subvert
意味 〈信念· 忠誠心など〉を打ち砕く; 〈物〉を悪くする, 損なう.
In the same interview, Wallace complains that Ellis tends to overwhelm his readers with unnecessary information, and that he goes to great lengths to create certain expectations only to subvert them later on. Wallace points to American Psycho, which “panders shamelessly to the audience’s sadism for a while, but by the end it’s clear that the sadism’s real object is the reader herself.”
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/literature-writing-taste/
American Psychoって原作あるんだ！…でも読みづらいなら先に映画見るほうが良さげかなw
fury
意味 [U] ＜…に対する＞ （しばしば暴力を伴うほどの） 激怒, 憤慨 ＜at, over＞ （狂気に近いほどの怒り）
In the eyes of some readers, some supposed literary masterpieces are not just bad books, but bad books that are also badly written. Virginia Woolf, a pioneer of 20th century modernism, directed her fury at another pioneer of 20th century modernism: James Joyce. She specifically criticized his 1918 book Ulysses, which is about a man who makes an Odyssey-inspired journey through the streets of Dublin.
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/literature-writing-taste/
ユリシーズって、（邪道は承知で）ネタバレ・あらすじを読んでも全く読みたいと思えないのよね…前に池澤夏樹さんの番組で見かけて気になったんだけど…長編がそもそも苦手なので私には無理そうw
abhor
意味 (かたく) （特に道義的理由で）〈事· 人〉を嫌悪 [憎悪] する （hate の強意語; 進行形にしない） .
Neither Woolf nor Tolstoy appear to have been aware of their biases. If they were, they did not admit to it in their writing. The same cannot be said for Mark Twain. The creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn absolutely abhorred the writing of Jane Austen. But unlike other critics, he was able to recognize that his loathing was ridiculous and based mainly on personal preference.
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/literature-writing-taste/
どうしても好きになれない作家って居るもんね。私は町田康。読みづらくて数ページも読めない。
conceal
意味 〈人が〉＜…に対して＞〈事実· 感情など〉を秘密にする ＜from＞
“I haven’t any right to criticize books,” he explained in a letter from 1898, “and I don’t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/literature-writing-taste/
