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I forgot I was planning to read chess story

he is popular in Europe. Germany and France etc. not so much in the English speaking world tho .

I love him immoderately. Chess Story, Amok, Fantastic Night, Leporella, Beware of Pity are all fantastic

>>8970533
Why would I ever spend that much money on the meaningless and far too voluminous musings of DFW-lite?

>>8970568
this was 22 years in the making. He smuggled a little Cambodian child prostitute away from her pimp and set her up in boarding school.

>>8970533
Abridged version my dude

>>8970159
I doubt she has read any actual literature. Maybe a dumbed down version of classics like Don Quixote but this is bait.

>>8970170
This post screams jealousy. Go back to /pol/.

Half of them were read to her. The other half consisted of 10 page 50 font books.

>>8970141
>have good intuitive sense of language
>memorize poetic terms and learn meter
>make bullshitty stuff up that seems insightful but is just you making shit up

>>8970185
Sounds good, any helpful links or maybe an intro book to poetic terms and the "meters"?
Not even sure what that means but that would be incredibly helpful.

Do you have some examples too?

>>8970141
must...hav...moar...sauce...

Yes he did kill them.

The part where it's 'just in his imagination' is actually the real imagination. It's his way of coping with what he did.

>>8970083
The scene with the taxi driver suggests he did but one of the main themes of the book is mistaken identity. Bateman didn't recognise the driver so it's possible the driver thought Bateman was someone else

>>8970083

It doesn't matter.

>>8969820
Sistine Chapel is ugly, especially the Last Judgment.
I mean, I appreciate the technical skill- one half of art- that went into it, but a bunch of flatly-painted, over-muscled naked men and bulldykes isn't the peak of beauty by any means.

>>8969829
you're fucking ugly

>>8969837
I'm prettier than that sodomite's insult to Mary.

What an embarrassment of a human being

>bitter angry drunk says bitter angry drunk things about his betters

gg Bukowski

>>8969475
You're just not atomic age enuf
Leave, coal-pseud.

La revista Castilla es electrónica y la publica la universidad de Valladolid, así que no la llevan modernitos tuiteros con aires de superioridad, sino gente que sabe del tema.

>>8968863
Supongo que por «revista literaria española» te refieres exclusivamente a España. ¿No?

>>8968943
Efectivamente. Sudamerica no cuenta como literatura española, demasiado sabroson.

Should've said William Gass

>>8968770
After people started naming memes I contemplated saying Arno Schmidt for about 1 millisecond

>no Milton
>no Donne
>no Chaucer

You should just kill the whole class.

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>>8968670
chart

>>8968364
Far past it now but this was my biggest criticism.

Sudden shift to Franz and new characters. We don't understand for a while why we should care about them or what they are doing. It all made sense in the end but I think it was an excuse for dumas to show off his travel writing.

has the three musketeers less literary merit?

>>8967915
The spiritual embodiment of war and violence.

>>8967917

That was my assumption, but I've been told by smarty pantses that that is a simplistic reading.

>>8967915
The main character from The Chapter in the Rye

It's a nobel effort but ultimately, and willi always be, incomplete.

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>>8967808
Add Hawthrone to USA.

Also Henry James, Walt Whitman and Jack London.

Add Blood Meridian and the Meme Trilogy to 20th century too.

Thanks.

>no Notes from Underground or War and Peace despite having two spots open under Russia

Are you even trying?

Dear girl who was wearing the same shirt I was. You pulled it off way better. I wish I got to pull it off of you to be honest though. Those two stops before I got off were very pleasant, I wish we'd gotten off together. I never saw you again even though I ride that bus every day to work. I'm probably gonna spend the rest of my life on that bus every day until I die. I hope you show up again at least once or twice.

Dear ---,

Hey, I don't really peg you as the kind of girl who likes really sappy letters from dudes you don't even know, so I'll keep it short and sweet. I feel like we really connected in the book store today. Please come back so I can help you find more books.

Yours truly,
B

U+Me=4ever

>>8967385
when is it my turn for a gf

Im reading the quran rn and the female recitations audios really puts me in the arabic mood so i really feel the quran. But the book keeps repeating "god is most forgiving and merciful", gets old real quick. I also like to smoke weed and listen to arabic music and read quran, music really influences my mindset and how i approach and interpret the reading. I have class tmr at 9am and i didnt prepare for any of them but ill keep reading this quran and go to bed later. Btw im not muslim im just reading cause i smoked weed once and came to conclusion that if i read all the religious books of all major religions(there r 12) i would be able to see through religion. Maybe actually there are a lot of gods in god realm but they all (most)claim to be the sole god and the more followers they have the more powerful they become. Maybe the gods are just memeing humanity or maybe i smoked too much weed and im going crazy. But i plan to read the holy texts of the 12 major classical religions and come to a conclusion.

Why read literature? If things go into the canon if they have high artistic merit and impact on society why do some people here say a work has to "have a conversation" with [a work from] the canon? What does that even mean? Is it possible to even finish reading everything? Even finishing the Greeks would take years.

>>8967218
he has no faults. any that could be perceived are attributed to his genius anyway. he makes a typo? well, turns out here in this 1732 copy of dogshit memes, it has this spelling as well, so it must be a reference to this work. He really took it to such a level that his critics end up being twisted into traps like that, almost ashamed of coming out with anything against him, for fear there was some piece they were missing.

>literal cuckold
>Fart fetishist
>Probably a pedophile
>Writing is too dense and incoherent to understand
>Rambles on like an autist
>People find random connections and references in his work when there is actually nothing of note
>Reading his books will leave you with less IQ and erectile dysfunction

>>8967218
Fuckin try it, I dare you. Literally the only dissenters are edgy teens or jealous writers.