How do I fucking write surrealism?
>>9405621
S-U-R-R-E-A-L-I-S-M
>>9405621
jUsTtt liEK tATTHHt
>>9405621
Get inspired by surrealist art from other mediums. Start with Dali and Buńuel.
itt: books without a hint of sentimentality
That piece of crap completely suck. I suggest people not to fell for the meme and read something else.
Céline died on 1 July 1961 of a ruptured aneurysm
>>9405591
Who cares, fuck yourself
Has anyone ever read it? Do I need to have read something before reading this? I am learning portuguese right now, is it worth?
>>9405423
Learning Portuguese won't really help you since it's written in a rather old dialect that even native speakers can have trouble understanding. (Although I'm sure most editions of it in circulation are rather modernised in that regard)
Other than that I think it's pretty good, it's essentially Odyssey fanfiction though.
>>9405423
I would recommend you read a Portuguese history book at least until Camões's time because the book is about the Portuguese sailor's achievements. You also should read homer since he was the one Camões was trying to replicate.
>>9405423
CORPSE QUEEN
What does /lit/ think of this book? Should I read it?
No, making threads about books you haven't read is much more fun.
I liked it. I have no idea what you like or dislike, nor do I care.
>>9405262
I liked it. You should read it.
Will reading this book give me insight into the mindset of Gen X?
>>9405174
No, it'll give potential insight into a writer who doesn't know how to write outside of pop-culture references though.
Can someone tldr the book?
>>9405253
epic memes and so nerdy references.
Find a single flaw
Way too many happy coincidences, but it's a romantic novel, so that's a given
what book is this?
It's in french.
holy shit /lit/ do we have free will?
We live as if we do... isn't that good enough?
>>9404547
no, actually
You're free to do what you want, but you have no control over what you choose to want.oh god please kill me
Rosa de Hiroshima
Pensem nas crianças
Mudas telepáticas
Pensem nas meninas
Cegas inexatas
Pensem nas mulheres
Rotas alteradas
Pensem nas feridas
Como rosas cálidas
Mas oh não se esqueçam
Da rosa da rosa
Da rosa de Hiroxima
A rosa hereditária
A rosa radioativa
Estúpida e inválida
A rosa com cirrose
A antirrosa atômica
Sem cor sem perfume
Sem rosa sem nada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BydC2fopTwo
this one is better 2bqf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eql3Ip21GEA
>>9404500
노무현 운지
>he fell for the "things can be lost in translation" meme
haha
nuclear bombs look the same in all languages.
I just realized how autistic I am /lit/
I have around 225 books in my collection.
but I have only actually read around 25 front to back.
the rest are all either half read and unfinished. or never even been opened.
but yet I constantly buy more books. (though they are only 40 cents a piece at the thrift store I buy them from)
Am I becoming one of "those" people who buys books but doesn't actually read them?
>>9404390
You are not 'Becoming' that person.
You are that person.
Go somewhere where there is no internet access and bring a book with you.
>>9404390
Step 1: Stop buying books, you're getting high of the purchase for no reason since you'll never read it
Step 2: Read A book. Just one. Pick one at random if you have to, and read it. Page by page. Once you finish the first page, turn to the second page. Once you finish the second page, turn to the third page. And don't worry about not having enough time in your life to do this. There is all of eternity to waste before you. Allow yourself to read slowly yet consistently. That's the only way anyone ever does it.
Step 3. Finish that book, and pick another one.
Step 4. Do this until you've read all of the books you've already purchased. Then, buy another book. Just one more. And then read that one. And don't purchase another until you've read that.
Step 5. ???
Step 6. Profit
what are you currently reading /lit/
>>9403213
>Walden
Nice. That book is amazing, and rarely gets talked about on here. I hope you enjoy it, OP.
>>9403213
Anne Frank
>>9403213
why do you have so many big books what the hell
What is this book trying to say?
>>9402835
save me is what it said. save me from this stinking pit of insanity and transport me to a time, any time other than this one.
>>9402835
Life sucks, kys, but be hilariously absurd first.
>>9402835
it's about us
University/College thread?
Just got accepted to pic related. Any other i/lit/eratti here?
I'm excited for the small classes and academic rigor, but a bit worried about being surrounded by vocal homosexual vegans for the next four years.
University of Delaware.
Not much, but it's cheap, rural, and more so conservative. Hoping to go to Duke for grad school
>tfw chad's already got women clamoring over themselves to get on his dick but nobody wants to be your roommate
I'm going to Oxford in October
Should I read it tonight?
>>9401923
Good shit. Nicely researched, br00tal fatalities, lots of intrigue, and well written.
>historical fiction
Throw that shit into the garbage bin dude
>>9402115
What for? What's wrong with it?
Have you ever had a professor who was simply stupid? I was given a poor grade on a paper because this teacher could not grasp what I was saying, not that it was especially insightful or profound. Has stuff like this ever happened to you, lit?
No, you must be mistaken. I've never encountered any morons in academia and sincerely doubt any exist.
i think i did, but i got over it and forgot about it, but i'm still blasted about that time a computer science t.a. marked down my assignment because since it was a c++ based class i used sprintf instead of printf, i was like come on pajeet get it together, i'm not even a cs major, how do i know this shit and u don't
No, but I never studied at an university that wasn't ranked in the top 10 so that might be why.
Why is he such a normie magnet?
Because he was one of the most visible features of le underground nerd culture in the early 2000s when the normie capitalist menace started appropriating it to sell it to people. The first normie-capitalist adventurers who waded into the wood-paneled basements of existentially authentic nerds who liked cosmic horror could only see the external manifestation of it, which was "hehe Cthulhu! Cthulhu fhtagn am I right guys? :P" and so they used laser-scanning algorithmic reconstructions to capture "SAYING 'CTHULHU AM I RGIHT? :p:!!' A LOT, THAT'S A MEME I CAN SELL TO THE PLEBS" and made a lot of merchandise and mentioned Cthulhu in everything despite never knowing what cosmic horror actually is. Now we live in peak post-normie late capitalism, where everything is a memetic cube to be sold to you at the gruel station, and LOVECRAFT cube #5 is right next to I LIKE VIDEO GAMES WHICH MEANS I LIKE TO PLAY THE SAME VIDEO GAMES EVERY YEAR AS THEY RERELEASE RESKINS AND CALL THEM SEQUELS I'M SUCH A NERD cube #6 and STAR WARS FOR THE WIN XD LIGHTSABERS OMGGGG DID YOU SEE WHEN DARTH VADER CAME OUT? HE'S FROM STAR WARS cube #8 and Wil Wheaton stuffs his pygmy cock down your throat.
>>9401101
rather spergy but yeah.
>>9401101
>existentially authentic nerds who liked cosmic horror
Like who?