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>be wannabe writer
>Have 90k word manuscript, poking fun at my country's literary scene and autobiographical trash
>Take gf to visit comfy town I lived in years ago
>Get airbnb, because cheap
>Gf notices book on shelf
>It is our hosts autobiographical cumming of age drama
Is everybody and their mother now a "writer"?
Pic related, it is his toilet
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>>9463719
even if everyone was a writer (which most people aren't) it doesn't mean everyone is an artist.
>inb4 fedora
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>>9463719
Hey that's my toilet
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>>9463719
He's more of a "writer" than you are.
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Any non biographic books about basketball player or basketball team etc?
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any good books about basketball, period?
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Rabbit Run - John Updike?
>post book
>others post music that could be the "soundtrack" of said book
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>>9463680
Schonberg or Xenakis, probably.
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>>9463699
probably something by Berio... don't see how anything by Joyce could be Xennakis but Ulysses=Schoenberg I could see
Is he mocking the reader with the "infinitely original author of charming sensibility" bit? It doesn't quite sound genuine, but is that just the translation?
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>>9463667
desu I prefer stuff like this:
Coming! Hardly are those words out of the Second Coming!
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>>9463667
art went to shit with Duchamp and all subsequent developments. he was just a memester who was jealous of his classically trained artistic siblings so decided to make a mockery of art for shits and giggles and no one stopped him.
also, found this on wikipedia lmao
"At about this time, Duchamp read Max Stirner's philosophical tract, The Ego and Its Own, the study of which he considered another turning point in his artistic and intellectual development. He called it "a remarkable book ... which advances no formal theories, but just keeps saying that the ego is always there in everything."
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>>9463726
>he was just a memester who was jealous of his classically trained artistic siblings so decided to make a mockery of art for shits and giggles and no one stopped him.
>cubism is classical
>his sister isn't dadaist
bro you sound so mad you'd better be posting from a sherrie levine exhibition or taking some drugs for that
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>mfw I can't find any worthwhile fiction from any living author
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retarded thread
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Who are some writers you've tried?
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DELET THIS
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We post our favorite authors from around the world.
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>>9463546
Interesting and not necessarily /lit/ approved pic.
Disgrace - SA and the Corpse Exhibition - Iraq are the ones that made ma laugh
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High def version if anyone cares
https://i.imgur.com/Iu0G2wV.jpg
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>>9463566
>Eclipse of the Crescent Moon for Hungary
Lmao that's elementary school stuff
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>quit my job
>decided to take a year off to write
>end up writing a novel but failing to find an agent
>only had one interview in three months
>forced to explain what I've been doing in my year off in job applications
>feel too embarrassed to say I've been writing a novel
This is hellish. Holy fuck.
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>>9463507
that was foolish wasn't it?
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Post an excerpt and I'll tell you if it was worth it.
Also just tell interviewers one of your parents fell ill and you quit your job to take care of them until they died
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>>9463516
No way. It doesn't feel right posting it here. I'll post like the opening sentence or something but that's it.
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What made Tolstoy so great ? What was it about his works ?
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Superb prose style. Depth to his characters, both male and female. They're as psychologically detailed as Shakespeare.
Brilliant grasp of pacing and structure.
profound understanding of human society.
Only flaw is the idiotic philosophy
tolstoy is Mr perfect,
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>>9463502
His prose was simple and easy to understand, but still had depth an elegance. Pretty much anyone could appreciate his work on some level or another
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>>9464058
>Only flaw is the idiotic philosophy
Fuck off atheist cuck.
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So I don't actually like reading, but I want to like reading. Reading was never a relaxing thing for me. All of the books that I pick up, I sort of have to push myself to get past them, because they tire me out very quickly. A marathon for me is usually 60 pages, or at best 100 pages. I can usually only read about 20 pages a day though.
I do value the books that I have read, because I like to feel like I can take something away from a story, or that it opens up my mind to new ways of thinking. It's just that I wish I could actually feel some relaxation in it, and not feel that it was this serious undertaking which takes determination and patience. Can anyone else relate to this? I read about 11 books last year, and I've so far finished one this year. There's plenty more books which I just could not finish though, like brave new world, blood meridian, moby dick, nausea, hunger, fucking ulysses, notes from underground, etc.
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Read something bite sized frist and easy to digest, like the cacther in the rye. It never once felt like a mendokusai to me while reading it. You should finish it in 7 hours.
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>>9463569
I've read it. It was good. Books like that are super easy to read.
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What stops you from relaxing while reading? disinterest? distraction?
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Are you faithful to your own country's literary tradition or do you mainly slut it up with sexy foreign lit?
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I always read book in their native language if I can understand them (English, French and German). Otherwise I read books in English (including books in my mother-tongue Dutch).
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>>9463397
That is not what I was asking but thank you for taking the time to reply. How come you don't read Dutch?
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>>9463413
Because I want to improve my linguistic skills, and I see Dutch as a irrelevant language (generally speaking but also regarding its literary accomplishments).
To answer more on point: I mainly read Anglo authors, and almost never Dutch/Flemish authors as we don't have that many great authors.
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Just finished this for the second time. What other non-fiction historical journalism exists that is actually entertaining to read?
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Thanks for the recommendation, anon. I knew this fella had written 'Jacked', all about the GTA series. But I checked Masters of Doom out and think I'll opt for that instead.
Sorry I can't be of any other help though!
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>Jacked
ooh, something to fill the hole that Masters of Doom left. Would recommend MoD, even if you're only kind of familiar with the games, cause it's fun and a great period piece of an era that has no other treatment. Jacked is only available in hardcover though... fug.
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Give me ideas on how to introduce the concept of higher dimensions and even a reality outside of said dimensions to viewers or an audience of readers, /lit/.
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"There are higher dimensions, even a reality outside of said dimensions."
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Just recycle what Michio Kaku says, you don't even need to understand it
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have read bioy casares, borges and cortazar. who are some other argentines to check out. shit set in BA preferably
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maybe, Roberto Arlt
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Why would you only stick to argies?
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>>9463293
Sábato
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reminder that this:
>all things are flux
>language cannot represent things as they are
>the structures of language are the structures of thought
>we can never conceive things as they are
>this limit can be approached through negation
>conceptions must battle and subjugate negations to bring the next conception, closer to the thing as it is, into being
>all things outside the ego are negations
>we must continuously destroy that which is outside ourselves to be re-born as our true selves
is just step one. however you approach the world afterwards, you must also confront your own psyche and memories
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So deep and really says something about something
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>>9463241
>>we can never conceive things as they are
more like there's an infinite number of ways to see a thing
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>>9463252
those are not mutually exclusive
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What's essential asexual literature?
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get a job
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>>9463183
>asexual
>literature
Choose one.
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thomas bernhard was pretty much asexual