>wrote in French, translated his own work into his native English
Does the >translations meme apply to this absolute madman?
>>8938306
He did that in order to simplify his language.
He knew he was far too influenced by Joyce. He could never beat Joyce at his own game, which he attempted in one of his first works, Murphy, a "Joycean" novel.
He switched to French to distance himself from that.
And what an amazing outcome it had.
Beckett is far beyond your shitty memery.
>>8938499
No mortal man is beyond memery
We can at least agree on THIS, right?
>Cinema
>Not Leni Riefenstahl
>>8938287
That's a strange way of spelling Agnes Varda
>>8938273
>music
>not Nico
Pleb
HELP ME
MORE LIKE KELP ME
MORE LIKE PHELP ME
Woah, I'm in the same class as you...
Best mind altering substances for reading? pic related
Shitpost drunk, read sober
>>8938174
nicotine is patrician
>>8938177
reading high though
Anyone else became /moral/ this year?
I'm just trying to get laid
>>8938173
What did you do to become moral? If you had a change of heart about something but didn't actually change any behavior then you're just virtue signaling.
I'm trying to be a good Catholic and lead a saintly life. It's hard, but that doesn't stop me from trying.
life, universe is crafted out of stories. everything is a story. your heart is a story. AND, get this, all stories are created equal.
>>8938170
>AND, get this, all stories are created equal.
I... Whoa...
Really gave me noggin a floggin'.
tru
everything is storytelling
teaching a graduate course on persuasion in marketing/business/advertising this spring, looking for suggestions.
has anyone here studied business/advertising? any good recommendations for more applied and commercial and commercial books? more theoretical and historical takes are also welcome, but this is a business course, so the more technical/"best practices" literature is what i'm aiming for.
pic related, the reading list i'm drawing selections from so far (minus all printed articles). would be happy to scan in and upload any of the shown books, btw.
>>8938100
your best bet would be posting to /biz/
>>8938108
i actually didnt realize there was a board for that, thanks...
>>8938100
Start with the Greeks
What mainstream books does /lit/ think deserve their success?
Mine is pic related; don't care if it's a meme, I think it's earned it.
>>8938037
Pride and Prejudice
The Bible
>>8938039
>Jane Austen
>Jane
>female authors
>2017
I seriously hope you guys (N.B.) don't do this.
>>8938298
Jane Austen is one of the greatest writers in the history of the English language.
>tfw you figured out the secret trick Joyce used to make his writing so good that you've emulated it and have already received an offer from a reputable publisher
>>8938019
It's not nice to get on the internet and lie
>>8938019
Spill it senpai
>>8938019
>implying publishers would even publish Joyce
He didn't exactly get published easily. He only got his stuff published because he knew people.
I want to be a better writer. How do I into prose?
eat pineapple and don't masturbate for three days
>>8938007
and this will help me become a better writer?
It's all about your ideas and not your prose, unless your name happens to be James Joyce
89th
Fuck forgot to post list
thegreatestbooks.org
delet this
>>8937901
Pretty good list actually. Pleasantly surprised
Why is he the G.O.A.T?
someone had to be
>>8937874
because there was free pussy and no vidya on his time
>>8937896
>being an adult male
>unironically using the term 'vidya'
Kill yourself
this is the greatest novel of the last twenty years, right?
>>8937775
2666 was published in 2004
Hit aaaaand miss
>>8937778
so are you saying that the unconsoled is the second best novel of the last twenty years?
it's easily in the top 10 possibly top 5
Not the most common thread on /lit/, but I've been trying to adjust to reading on paper from doing so much on a screen, and it would be nice to have something to have fun with paired with some of the heavier things I'm reading.
Does /lit/ have any guilty pleasures or books they read or that they just have fun with? Something they don't read to study, rather simply for diversion
pic unrelated
>>8937658
famous jewish athletes
>>8937658
My favorite humor book is Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. It's the greatest depiction of a pseudointellectual NEET lifestyle ever put to paper.
>>8937658
reading the hobbit right now. The story is good but the writing is boring as fuck and I feel like I am degenerating my reading ability by reading it.
>Try to read patrician /lit/ to make me smarter
>End up reading Lovecraft for days
Am I a pleb?
honestly i find lovecraft harder to read than most 'patrician' /lit/
i like him, but it's awkwardly written and clumsy and i force my way through despite his flaws because i like the things he describes and the atmosphere
whereas with nabokov, pynchon, woolf, the greeks, dfw or whatever, their prose flows like oil
>>8937655
not plebby at all tbqfh. Lovecraft wastes a lot of paper because he's a pedantic writer, but I have a lot of fun with the imagery and worlds he creates. I'd say he's probably the most patrician horror novelist aside from maybe Shelley or Barker.
>>8937664
In my opinion Lovecraft was the effect of the atmosphere he lived that made his stories amazing while he himself was only a moderate writer.
Both his parents suffering greatly under it and he himself living with similar problems all his life but never to the extent of his parents gave him enough experience to write great stories.