Well, I finally finished all three.
Personal enjoyment = IJ>Ulysess>GR
Literary worth = Ulysess>GR>IJ
Seeing as I evidently have no abilities to actually think for myself (see pic related) what's next?
I was thinking Atlas Shrugged, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and TCLO49 should keep me busy.
Also general discussion on any mentioned texts.
>>9461229
Schopenhauer's On Women
Mein Kampf
Decline of the West
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
the Bell Curve
Crippled America
Ride the Tiger
We need someone like you to join the fight
>>9461236
How many layers of irony are you on?
>>9461236
You forgot this.
Nah, I don't buy into any of that B.S.
ITT: literary charlatans
>>9461203
Another quality thread.
Can you provide an argument or was this thread just created to harvest (You)s?
>>9461212
Can you provide and argument as to why Ezra Pound is a serious artist and critic?
Because they are at one with the world and have conformed to {whatever} in this case /lit/
It's only useful if you want to read Schopenhauer and maybe Evola
Unlike the greeks meme
it is though newfag bhakti boy
namaste
What is the Catholic equivalent to the Philokalia?
>>9460935
sucking off the pope. seriously, just accept that orthodoxy is better. or don't feel threatened to read outside a strictly curated list of 'canon' texts.
We have a number of theologians, mystics, and spiritualists, some who, by themselves, have written more than the contents of the Philokalia.
>>9460955
>talks about "a number of theologians, mystics, and spiritualists"
>doesn't name even one
>image from tumblr
What are the best books set in Spain?
>>9460879
Pedro Paramo
>>9460879
The grand inquisitor
>>9460879
Don Quixote, Lazarillo de Tormes, The Sun Also Rises, Cantar de Mio Cid.
What are things an artist should know? How does one create worthwhile art? I'm not talking about mere craftsmanship
Also what is the state if art today? To me art seems to be stagnating, all the classical boundaries have been torn down - where do we even go from here?
>>9460818
>What are things an artist should know?
That knowledge does not create art
>Also what is the state if art today?
There's good stuff and bad stuff.
>where do we even go from here?
make art, faggot
>>9460826
I'd like to hear about it from an actual artists if you don't mind
floow your insintct
what did he mean by this?
>>9460810
>tfw Debord and Zizek will never make a superhero movie where they fly around and stop ideology
>>9460810
his first suicide attempt was by sticking his penis into a garbage disposal unit
It's pretty obvious.
This is an excerpt from "To the Lighthouse", Chapter 11, by Virginia Woolf.
Imagine, without knowing the setup to this scene, or having read the book, you are dropped this passage and asked all sort of questions, such as the meaning of the light, why does she says "It's enough".
How do you make sense of it without having even read the book?
>>9460774
God, I love Woolf.
Also, do you own homework, faggot
>>9460787
She's got beautiful prose. I wish I could write like her.
>>9460787
I feel like her sentences are too long compared to how the average english writes, they go for too long and the point ends up missing, in this book I don't see the interior monologue, it seems just a vague third person perspective.
The description seems more apt to the design of poetry rather than introspection, given only this excerpt and nothing else, I can't gauge much of the who, what, where, how.
>written a bunch of short stories
>have gotten a few of them published, albeit only in smaller venues so far
>have decided to gather them into a somewhat thin collection
>looking around to see if I can get that collection published
Any advice, /lit/? I'm working on a novel, too, but these short stories are just lying around, and in addition to getting them published individually I might as well see if I can get them published together, right?
No one will give a fuck about an anthology of short stories unless you're famous
>>9461996
Counterpoint: James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
>>9461996
My fav author Jhumpa Lahiri
t.pooinloo
How to describe an ideal female character? Serious question
>>9460540
Antigone.
>inb4 it turns into another redpill frog thread
>>9460540
Copy Homer's example - never describe physical attributes and allow the audience to fill in their own desired attributes
>>9460540
What do you even mean? One's ideal is not like another's
Do you finish every book no matter how boring? If you read a boring classic book by an author do you still read their other books?
I hate how literature has become a pseudo intellectual social signalling mechanism. I am halfway through the brothers Karamazov and finding it boring as fuck in general. I have to read this book and many other boring as fuck books by Dostoevsky or else people will call me a pleb.
I'm probably not going to finish reading Cyclonopedia because while it is interesting as a thing, reading that much schizophrenic postmodernist occult ranting is not terrible engaging. I'm not ashamed of this.
Oh yeah, and I really hate how people pretend that every single sentence in every single Dostoevsky book is a piece of psychological, philosophical, and opthalmological genius. What a load of soody nonsense. Not only is it forbidden to say the words "fun" and "enjoy" with regard to novels, you have to make up some stupid "Literary "Theory"" nonsense reason.
Is Nick Land a fascist? Why or why not?
What is his political praxis?
>>9460315
He's a dirty Marxist swine.
He doesn't hate women and minorities like we do as Fascist redpillers
>>9460315
google accelerationism and then add cyborgs or whatever
>>9460315
I had an English exam and I panicked and wrote about Land and CCRU. Is this stuff academically respectable or have I fucked up?
I want to get into literature. Where do I start?
>>9460227
Lol dumbass
>>9460227
Start with something easy. I'd recommend Ulysses by James Joyce. It will get you started on basic casual reading before you go on to some more challenging stuff.
>>9460227
Start with the Irish
>Simply talking books on a popular tv talk show
>has to make it blatanly obvious that this is boring and the people aren't interested in such talk.
Why?
>https://youtu.be/rpB1WPUeCas?t=41s
>Uuuuuuuhhh did he just ask about reading? Like uuum... awwwkwwwaaard.
Good on Mr. Banks for trying to bring it up.
Conan is just trying to hide his power level
do you subscribe to any? have you submitted to any? what do you consider 'top tier'?
>tinhouse
taktak.nu isn't top tier but it's made by /lit/erates and is free.
>>9460141
Granta is god tier. Always buy old issues at my local book shop. They are straight responsible for the coining of the term "dirty realism"
>>9460149
>taktak
>promoting your rag on /lit/
We know this is your second venture, after you tried to rip off the 'anonymous' quirk you picked up from shitposting here the first time around. TakTak tries way too hard to be self-aware and of-the-now. It's super transparent.
I don't really subscribe to any lit magazines anymore. Cancelled a few subs last year. Everyone is either publishing way to much marketable or otherwise trite bullshit, or trying desperately to appear 'hip' with shit forms like flash fiction and e-zines. Publishing is dead. Just tweet and masturbate, its all we're good for.