Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 950. page

>>9628906
Well, I'm still in the process of failing. I haven't failed yet.

>>9628906
/lit/ skews too young to qualify as "failed writers." Age/success paranoia threads aside, it takes a bit of time and actual failures for the label to be accurate.

>>9628906
>tfw on nofap and even the OP pic makes me horny

start with the greeks

honesty

>>9628891
Joyce was certainly aware that he was a genius. Hard to say what really makes a literature genius a genius. If anything I'd say that a natural inclination towards language certainly helps. As well as the ability to deeply understand human thought, emotions, and interactions (which is one of the reasons why most people on this board will never get anywhere with writing. 99% of the stuff I read on here is completely detached from reality.)

Don't think in terms of "good parts" and "shitty parts" first of all.

>>9628788
Woah what the fuck bro, are you like kidding? The bible? Really?

Lmao xD

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>>9628795

Moby Dick

The premise of this thread fills me with contempt but Gogol called Dead Souls a poem.

>>9628615
>The premise of this thread fills me with contempt
Why?

/lit/ has been here since around that time - it may have been shortly after his ddeath. /LIT/ was very into Asian books in the early days - anything western was 'pleb'

I remember when he died in 2008, his death was certainly popular in the media. Even though I hadn't read his books at the time, I felt for his passing.

/lit/ was made in 2010

I was dissapointed because i thought i'd be like Zaratustra only with the Buddha.

>>9628574
Haven't yet read Zaratustra :(

I think it might be related to translation (german doesn't translate as nicely to englisch as romanic languages)

having read him in german i can say he's one of the best stylists there is

I liked Siddharta but I think Steppenwolf and Naziß & Goldmund are better

Consider philosophy. Also, start with the Greeks.

>Hilarotragoedia - Giorgio Manganelli
An essay/fiction considering the possibility of human beings being, by nature, of a "descenditive inclination", doomed to enthropically spiral into Death, the Underworld and utter nothingness
https://www.uploady.com/#!/download/OABBZBrG2am/vU7ck2ZRH1kc4N2V

>The Temple of Iconoclasts - Rodolfo J. Wilcock
A collection of vignettes about the inherent absurdity of human endeavors and ideologies, probably the best Borgesian book never written by Borges
https://harpers.org/archive/2014/12/aaron-rosenblum/

>Sufficient Unto the Day: Sermones Contra Solicitudinem - Nicola Masciandaro
A collection of extremely well written (if hyperobscure and convoluted) philosophical essays on topics from the "worm" as a symbol to anagogy.
http://www.academia.edu/10114025/WormSign

>>9628467
>What are some books that really make you think by exploring extreme philosophical ideas?

Lol no.

Borges is to philosophy, as action movies are to political theory. While Borges is probably the most famous and successful of this subgenre, his fiction mostly comprises of the low hanging fruit of philosophy, like identity, memory, entry level speculative mathematics, etc. It is deep material, but hardly the end-all of what philosophical fiction is capable of.

o sariputra form does not differ from emptiness
and emptiness does not differ from form

Start with the gooks

Start with Gundam 0079

No. You would be a brainlet if you believed any part of this book wasn't completely nonsensical trash.

>>9628414
Is Pynchon worth it at all?

>>9628434
Are you in a "useless trivia" league? Do you think the point of writing is to appear more clever than the reader?

If you answered yes to one or both of these questions, Pynchon is your guy.

>>9628208
Joyce is, but Woolf definitely comes close.

>>9628208
nah man, the best prose can be found in my diary

>>9628208
Probably, yes.

if she's already attracted to you then she'll like either of your opinions
if not then it's irrelevant what you think

>>9627912
Decide for yourself. If you like him you like him. He's ok but I think the hipster crowd has elevated him to a god.

That one girl in the Haruki Murakami book--the lesbian--dressed like Kerouac.

>what did i mean by mentioning this?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWrX_pjo75Q
or any early alan parsons tbqhwyfam

aphrodite's child - 666

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dis 1 finna make me wanna right ... real talk on sum 1 hunnit shhiet

>>9627527
bump

>>9627527
You're brainwashed to side with the "working class" and the Jews.

>>9628398
Fucking /pol/ get rekt. I think it was both anti Bourgeois and anti soviet. See some people aren't either/or you know?

My favorite book of his is A Scanner Darkly; it is the most honest and poignant depiction of drug use in all of literature. He does not morally condemn the drug user , he lets the state control apparatus be the villain which, if you've ever been a drug addict, you know is true to life. Now that I think of it I have to read it again in light of what layers of meaning I might have missed. The title references the Bible so maybe there was some gnostic meaning behind it as well.

>>9627471
It is a well-known fact that PKD's editor chose the titles for him

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>>9627445
>Dick

>>9627424

bump I wanna know this too

Unironically, my diary

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Just wait until it gets a translation I guess.