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Why the hell do people gush all over The Stranger? 2017-05-21 10:32:50 Post No.9533452
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Why the hell do people gush all over The Stranger?
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Is such a vapid, shitty book with equally bad writing. There is nothing profound about it, yet Redditors and /lit/ rate it so highly. The subject matter is something found in literally every existential book you read, or is taken as already known.
The book can be summed up as "life is absurd, nothing really matters, get over it."
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>>9533452
>just that life is absurd
this is a profound idea. the book wrestles with it.
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>why bother with the original when other people have copied it?
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Camus BTFO
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>[Oscar] Wilde took a key out of his pocket and showed me into a tiny apartment of two rooms… The youths followed him, each of them wrapped in a burnous that hid his face. Then the guide left us and Wilde sent me into the further room with little Mohammed and shut himself up in the other with the [other boy]. Every time since then that I have sought after pleasure, it is the memory of that night I have pursued. […] My joy was unbounded, and I cannot imagine it greater, even if love had been added.
>How should there have been any question of love? How should I have allowed desire to dispose of my heart? No scruple clouded my pleasure and no remorse followed it. But what name then am I to give the rapture I felt as I clasped in my naked arms that perfect little body, so wild, so ardent, so sombrely lascivious? For a long time after Mohammed had left me, I remained in a state of passionate jubilation, and though I had already achieved pleasure five times with him, I renewed my ecstasy again and again, and when I got back to my room in the hotel, I prolonged its echoes until morning.
What did he mean by this?
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I think that he had a rare good time, and meant to express 'the what' of it.
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He meant
>I fucked a child and enjoyed it thoroughly
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yo, what the fuck? i just read hindoo holiday and have also watched that doc about afghani boys. is this some normal shit in central asia? how tf is this pleasant?
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Great new writers under the radar 2017-05-21 09:05:00 Post No.9533263
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Great new writers under the radar
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I stumbled upon Teju Cole at my local Barnes and Noble about 4 years ago and I've been hooked since. I know that /lit/ has a great disdain for Black authors because they always write about cliche "I'm oppressed" books but this guy is different he's the contemporary author that we need at the moment. We are so divided in all aspects of our lives because of the faults in the ideologies that we cling to in order to self identify or fit in.
His approach to writing about the tolls that modern life puts on the societies all around the world is exceptional. His eloquent and terse way of immersing you in this stories are undoubtedly shakespearean.
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>all his books are about black characters
Pass.
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Marlon James
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Right that's all fine, but are his books ultimately about blacks being kept down by whitey?
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Is all of this guy's work just edgy rebellion against his parents?
>dude doctors suck
>dude rich people suck
>dude modern research sucks
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he was a leftist homosexual so yes
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judge doom?
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>dude anal fisting is awesome
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So my parents have slammed down the hammer conclusively and told me that they will not allow me under any conditions to pursue literature/philosophy in college. Should I give up my dreams of becoming a great writer, or does this not matter too much? Are there any more practical majors in college that I could study that would still be beneficial to the path of a writer?
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>>9532446
You should give up that dream, because 99% of all the regulars here suck at wrting, but you should also do what you want with your life...because, hilariously so, its your useless fucking life after all.
So get a job.
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>>9532446
Where do you live?
If you're American: you're fucked, either give up or accept that your life will be a miserable one. Get a job and start to plan your emigration, since in the US you're basically cannon fodder, you'll end up working shit jobs for the rest of your life, leaving every single one of your ambitions unfulfilled.
If you're European you can easily support yourself with a part-time job while studying in uni, which you should do.
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>>9532496
>can easily support yourself with a part-time job while studying in uni, which you should do.
lol
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What is your daily schedule? I'm trying to live a /lit/ lifestyle, where all I do is write and read and shit.
It's summer, so I don't have to do much studying, so my days look like:
>6:30 Wake Up
>8:00 Read News
>9:00 Read whatever is on my booklist
>2:00 Write whatever project I'm working on
>4:00 Study Japanese
>6:00 Relaxation time
>8:00 Write
>9:00 Evening run
>10:00 Bed
Where can I improve? Is there something that I can do better? Is there a large time waste here, or something?
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>>9532251
If you have a schedule and you're sticking to it, you're doing better than most people.
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>>9532251
Studying Japanese is a pretty big time waste unless you plan on moving there to teach.
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Don't ever live where you work. My schedule is beyond fucked and I can hardly make the time to read that I used to.
Whats /lit/ opinion on DFW?
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Banal
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eh
he was an alright writer but thinking about him in person is nauseating. How lame.
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Looks like a total dick. Can't get passed that enough to read his stuff.
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ITT: Post essential reading for babby's first existential crisis
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sartre camus kafka borges
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>>9531686
>tfw read Camus, Kafka and Borges around ages 13-15
>tfw did not have existential crisis
>tfw was probably just too young
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>>9531686
This
>No Exit
>Myth of Sisyphus
>In the Penal Colony
>El Aleph
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Where to start with this handsome chap?
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>>9531393
Letter to d'Alembert on Spectacles. It's a microcosm of his worldview.
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post the best portrait for a start.
then read the wiki page i guess
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I read the Reveries first, and like them best. Theyre short.
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Are there any intelligent refutations of socialist theory?
I'm steadily turning full commie as I read more economics, so I figure I should engage with some opposition. However, nothing I've found has really made me question my beliefs. For example, I see lots of people here recommending laughable Austrian economists, and pointing out the "economic calculation problem", which is a meme rendered irrelevant by modern computing technology, and the vast planning that already takes place in market economies.
I'm open to intelligent criticism you can point to, however, if nothing else to sharpen my arguments.
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try the redpill stupid little idiot
the truth is in capitalism but with nazism combined and with women back in the kitchen
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Read this.
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>>9531342
>Are there any intelligent refutations of socialist theory?
Yes. Reality.
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Just bought this, never seen the show.
What am I in for
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mediocre bullshit that filled a creative void in our culture, so it attracts a lot of people
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>>9530675
You lose points for buying the TV tie in edition cover.
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>>9530675
It's pretty much the same as watching someone else play Skyrim
So, what's your story about? Are you going to finish it someday?
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>tfw I actually got a good idea today for a book
it's semi autobiographical about a guy who tries to kill himself and fails
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>>9530449
I don't have a story. I don't know how to come up with a story arc to write.
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>little girl, daughter of fire
>epic journey, she travels to a place on "the other side of the world"
>from frozen lands to deadly deserts
>on the way she meet people, animals... all of them are losers, outcasts. They end travelling together.
>the rest of the people is bad, religious, egoistic (she's raped a few times, actually)
>the animal (some dog or wolfdog) who is also the narrator, is somehow a representation of myself and my sexual urges (a bit like Lewis Carroll's white knight).
>pedosexual fanservice, a lot
>inspirated by Zdzislaw Beksinski, John Martin... (among many others)
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Stack thread. Recent purchases.
>Tfw 1899 book about the Boer War for $5 at the bottom
>some dead guy's thot daughter probably gave it awat without even thinking twice
>spine is in mint condition
People truly are retards.
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>>9529455
>find large French book published in 1874 with amazing illustrations about the Franco-German war
>ask how much it costs, expecting € 100 +
>'5 euro should do'
stupid fucking cunt had no idea
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>>9529455
The only good book in that stack is The Art of the Deal
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>>9529515
weak bait
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South America is low-key the most literary continent.
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>>9528303
Songs of Maldoror, huge influence to the surrealists, is the work of the Uruguayan-French Lautreamont (Ducasse). It's on a front-burner now that I just finished another book.
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>>9528303
just because of argentina, aka "the true home of the white man"
the rest of the countries are shit/hue
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>>9528417
Argentina has no literary laureates of its own, fuckface.
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Would anyone be up for a Moby-Dick reading group some time this summer?
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is this just a cover for a jerk off group?
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>>9525473
the things you think about...
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where?