Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 1797. page

>>9135825
>his
Lermontov's? Pechorin's?

It was a problem for him, that there was no entirely problem at all.

>>9135850
Pechorin

>>9135792
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicolon#Usage

Literally just taught a remedial English class how to properly use semi-colons. It really isn't hard. Check the first part of this site:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/engagement/2/1/44/

I have no idea how they work but I use them all the time and nobody tells me I'm doing it wrong.

>>9135731
What is this bullshit? Do a proper sharethread where you share some at least passable works of literature instead of this ghastly rigmarole (sorry, just back from the Nabokov vs. Dostoyevsky thread). Take this free bump as a second chance for your thread.

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>>9137789

>>9135731
Thanks but is anything of his interesting? What I did sample wasn't so very good, though I did not read much because, as mentioned, what I did read was terrible. Is anything he's written not utter shit, is what I'm asking.

>>9135459
why did you post this

>another Milo controversy shilling thread

And almost everyone before 1968 was a rabid racist.
But don't tell anyone that today. Hegel would've been cool with a 20% muslim minority in his beloved German lands.

Why this dumbass generation hasn't called for the ban of most authors before WWII is beyond me. It's so easy for them to find quotes that would trigger the fuck out of them and show it belongs to a cultural hero of the West... which makes it PROBLEMATIC to print them still.

It's pretty heavy handed and stupid.

Houellebecq is the Lars Von Trier of literature. A vapid opportunist that enjoys pissing off European liberals. Every once in a while he may produce something of value but most of the time it's not worth serious study or consideration.

Why would you ever spend your time on trash like this when actual classics sit on your shelves unread?

>>9135217
Pretty good. One of the best modern explications of the long-term societal effects of secular-humanism.

>>9135217
Not unbelievable. It's definitely one way we could be headed. People just accept what is happening a little bit at a time and before they know it, it is over. It's a warning.

>>9134578
>Too epic
>Too good, I am just so impressed and bewildered at my staggering genius I continually have to wipe tears from my eyes, and fret them naught to hit mine leaflet
>having to use a thesaurus... to dumb down my language
>deciding which of my 7 magnum opui, I feel like working on first in the morning, which is only a problem on the rare nights when I do not write about 30 pages in my dream, which I then photographically recite into my alarm clock/tape recorder upon awakening

>>9134578
>not enough chit chat
>plods along for eternity
>vast paintings
>the entire story is one or two scenes

>>9134578
>this would work in another language
>wibble wobbling TIE fighters make me overestimate myself

>>9133882
was it because he's a pedo?

>>9133882

good

>>9133884
Ye, I think so.

>>9133075
The Sea Wiolf - Jack London. One of my all time favs. Not so much about fishing, but about the sea.

also, Moby Dick - Melville.

A River Runs Through It if freshwater fishing is fine.

>>9133075
Joseph Conrad obviously. He wrote a number of sea themed novel, and unlike hacks normally writing these things, he in fact was experienced sailor. Just don't start with Nostromo. It's immensely complex and difficult read.

>>9132822
Just don't be ugly and it's not a problem, disgusting creep

>>>/r9k/

once you read Georges Bernanos "Sous le soleil de Satan", you will never look at ANY 16 year old girl. You will be scared.

>>9132822
Yeah it's this little thing called self control

>>9132589
>le '19 year old loser who thinks reading The Divine Comedy will make him a sophisticated, deep, and cultured' man

You'll still be ugly

All wikipedia articles on greek mythology, Illyad, Odysey, Aeneid, the bible....

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The Greeks, especially Aristotle.

>>9132595
>all this projecting

>>9131625
Literature also has different aims than the typical book. Think of the difference between design and art. Both can be pretty and interesting but design stops short of deeper meaning and truth.

i want to fuck that painting

>>9131667
>Both can be pretty and interesting but design stops short of deeper meaning and truth.

But design is, by definition, useful. Design must have a practical application for it to be considered design. Sometimes that's the only difference. And in a lot of circles, designers are considered artists. For example, you have Eileen Gray. A designer at the turn of the century (1900s) who is still considered a huge figure in her field today.

Good designers fulfill the same requirements as artists, with the additional requirement that what they create has to be useable.

So really, if you're comparing a sort of intellectual application and a practical application, then that doesn't really devalue the typical book.

I'll add that I'm talking about a certain standard of the medium, of course.

Also hey Girardfag, you're a cool dude.

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I like you too. You should become a teetotaler like me though, or at least not drink excessively. I genuinely worry about people who drink a lot.

I am posting just because girardposter apparently is watching this thread.

i dont know who it is but i bet you havent read les mis

>>9130635
Why women love victorian litt?

>>9130635
no, op, actually you are

>>9126119
no but I did Email Cioran

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>>9126119
Emailing a communist....

Lol no thanks

>>9126119

>told him about /lit/
"I tried to look at that page but saw only inane comments."

:(

>>9124571
I'm sorry you don't have a sense of humor.

>>9124579
>>>/r/eddit

>>9124579
This post gave me cancer. I hope you have good liability insurance.