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> Maybe other people liked it, even if you didn't? Never saw anyone who liked it. Everybody I asked about Doctor Zhivago, said it is graphomania (I don't know

• wolverine876 5y ago
  > graphomania (I don't know if it is customary to call bad books by this name in English, but we usually use this word) Great word! And as someone who knows a bit about English literature, I've never heard it before. It's a common trope about widely respected, intellectual works, 'nobody really likes them'. (The following is not about you; I don't know you at all, of course:) Frankly, I think people can find them difficult, naturally, and an anti-intellectual response is an easy cover story that they know will be socially accepted. Lots of people like these works, including Dr Zhivago and Maria Stepanova. As I've grown older I've learned that if I don't like it then usually there's something I'm missing, which an opportunity for me to learn. As I've grown more sophisticated, I've learned why they are so admired - I just lacked the background to grasp it before. Certainly, reading these works in school was often impractical. Now, I'm sorry I don't have the time to read them all.