Why the fuck western writers pretend that words words words and more words mean the writing is better?

Why do OPs pretend they are not fags?

The Chinese and Indian classics somewhat infamously are several thousands of pages long to the point that engaging with them seriously must become your primary reading goal for years if not life.

That‘s probably better where having a canon is concerned but really where are you coming up with this as a Western phenomenon?

>>24544313
This. If anything, the Chinese come to mind heavily despite their writing being logographic for being obscenely long for Westerners. And people think Proust’s Magnum Opus is very excessively long despite it being a Western classic.

not all western lit worships length and over-flowery prose. The hard-boil gumshoe and crime noir are good examples. These genres, tend to show examples of short, terse prose.

>>24544295 (OP)
>why do western writers
Which writers? Why such vagueness? Are you scared of discussing lit on /lit/?