The writers you \ "discovered \"

For example, I somehow did not perceive Hemenguei and Faulkner before. I read it, not so long ago, but it was not impressive. ... Now he took it up again, and, as if overwhelmed, the attitude completely changed. That their literary "salt", which I did not notice, seemed to be on the surface. Before that, he also "discovered" Tolstoy and Bunin.
Have you ever had such cases when something seems to flip in your brain and you start to admire things that you haven't perceived for a long time?