Get real. Terry Pratchett is not a literary genius | Art and design | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/aug/31/terry-pratchett-is-not-a-literary-genius
A middlebrow cult of the popular is holding literature to ransom. Thus, if you judge by the emotional outpourings over their deaths, the greatest writers of recent times were Pratchett and Ray Bradbury. There was far less of an internet splurge when Gabriel García Márquez died in 2014 and Günter Grass this spring. Yet they were true titans of the novel. Their books, like all great books, can change your life, your beliefs, your perceptions. Everyone reads trash sometimes, but why are we now pretending, as a culture, that it is the same thing as literature? The two are utterly different.
Actual literature may be harder to get to grips with than a Discworld novel, but it is more worth the effort. By dissolving the difference between serious and light reading, our culture is justifying mental laziness and robbing readers of the true delights of ambitious fiction.
(rah, un mauvais raccourci clavier et voilà que je mets ça sur Seenthis sans commentaire, vite-vite, corriger tout ça)
Du calme Joe, serais-je tenté de dire. Il n’y a pas lieu de faire de hiérarchie dans la littérature, d’autant que ce qu’on considère comme de la grande littérature un jour s’efface parfois dans le temps, ou au contraire est vu comme facile ou médiocre à son époque et brillant par la suite.
Voir les procès qu’on n’a pas cessé de faire à la BD depuis toujours — cf. le joli petit Contre la bande dessinée de Jochen Gerner par exemple.
▻http://www.jochengerner.com/index.php?page=bibliographie&id=4&id_biblio=28
Via un tweet de @bravepatrie
