Quick guide for midwits like myself for sounding smart:
When you combine two things, that's "Hegelian."
When something resembles something, you say "Baudrillard!" or "simulacrum!"
When you say something but secretly mean something else, it's "Straussian."
reading a novel after reading someone like baldwin or lispector is extremely difficult. i’m not trying to be pretentious either but classics (modern included) raise the bar so high everything else feels lacklustre and most prose is just not cutting it