What does /lit/ think of the greatest Italian author of XX century?
One of his books has had a recent printing in the U.S which I have temptations of owning. It's one of his novels. One of his fiction books is at my college library. I'm not sure if they are the same one.
I've seen four of his movies and they were good. Two of them were alright, one of them was really really good (a masterpeice?) and one of them was a masterpeice
Alright: The Decameron, Salo
Really good (my favorite): THE CANTERBURY TALES
Masterpiece: ARABIAN NIGHTS
I own these on Blu-Ray.
>>8784669
mediocre at best - celebrated only from leftist politicians
>>8784669
Good, but in no way the greatest.
Also leftists don't understand him usually.
is anyone reading this right now? just blazed a huge canon and I'm on page 7. let's talk about it. I see where the Greek meme came from now. is it bad I haven't read any Greeks
Sup OP, Im always rereading parts of this book, it's all still pretty fresh in my mind.
I don't think it's bad that you haven't read any Greeks, it illuminates the text a little more but isn't by any means necessary
>>8784659
I read it for the first time this week. Just read a summary of the Odyssey and maybe a summary of Hamlet. a lot of references went over my head, but it was still very enjoyable.
>>8784659
These are the worst threads on /lit/. Not the shitposting, not the Tao Lin or Mira Gonzalez threads, not the women or minority hating threads, not the "I'm a literary genius threads," but these. The threads with a underlying feeling of "I'm so special because I read books" while barely understanding anything about them. The fact that you only got into 7 pages of Ulysses before making a stupid thread about it, and having to tell everyone about it demonstrates this. Yeah you try to cover yourself with ironic jokes, and little buddy-buddy remarks like "just blazed a huge canon" but I know you think you're smart and "cultured" for reading Ulysses. You don't understand anything about the importance of art. Oh maybe you like a few phrases here and there, and get a little tingle occasionally, but you ultimately use art for yourself. Because you think it adds an interesting side to your personality. You love thinking about having read books, but have no idea of what their actual significance is. You probably enjoy saying that "the prose is good." You act all innocent, telling yourself and trying to give off the impression that you don't take yourself too seriously, that books are just a fun hobby for you.. And you are what is killing literature, you and your ignorant, self-aggrandizing whoring of the only secular means of saving the human soul.
Hi, I wrote something about how I feel I don't belong on this planet. Please read.
I seriously hope you didn't seriously hope you'd waste my time on this crap
Write an interesting story or a poem, nobody cares about your pent up teen angst
>>8784595
It only took me like 30 minutes to write, it's hardly an essay. I'm just getting some thoughts out. And sorrynotsorry for writing naturally and not like a tryhard.
>tfw rejected for publication again
me that globe under the table
>>8784386
NIGGA NO LITTLE NIGGA
Keep fucking trying
Why don't we have any literary geniuses anymore?
>>8784301
why not you?
sorry i was taking to break
>>8784301
We do. They aren't writing forms you'd recognize as "literary" anymore, though. Poetry, novels, the short story—these have all been commodified to the extent that individual talent and genius is no longer possible there. Instead you just see glorified market campaigns spread out over 1000 pages penned by cheap two-bit MFA grads with three names, like Garth Risk Hallberg. The really talented writers of this generation are writing in that other genre variously theory, criticism, or continental philosophy.
How do you describe >tfw no gf
>>8784285
Whatever by St. Michel
>>8784285
Sorrows of Young Werther
>>8784285
I am alone with my thoughts, and my thoughts don't like me.
So if this is complete bullshit, should I still read it? Why or why not? Should I just skip Freud and go to Jung?
If you have it, read it. I would
I'm also interested in the answer. Bump.
>>8784026
you can skip them both
>Dante
Catholic
>Shakespeare
Catholic
>Joyce
Catholic
>Pynchon
Catholic
What did God mean by this?
>>8784005
>Pynchon
He's fucking Jewish, you idiot.
>>8784005
>putting Pynchon in that company
God, I hate this place
>Thomas Pynchon was born in 1937 in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, one of three children of Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Sr. (1907–1995) and Katherine Frances Bennett (1909–1996). His earliest American ancestor, William Pynchon, emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, then became the founder of Springfield, Massachusetts in 1636, and thereafter a long line of Pynchon descendants found wealth and repute on American soil. Aspects of Pynchon's ancestry and family background have partially inspired his fiction writing, particularly in the Slothrop family histories related in the short story "The Secret Integration" (1964) and Gravity's Rainbow (1973). Pynchon was raised a Catholic.
which one of you did this
>He only read 10 books the this whole year
It doesn't seem as if you have been reading at all mate. Can't even form a sentence.
>>8783925
get on my level0
I'd much rather read and carefully understand 5 books than blow through 50+ books with minimal understanding.
I'd much rather remember the plot, the structure, and the author's style weeks and months after reading than to be a mouthbreather who says, "omg DAE completely forget what happened in the books they read the very next day? xDDD"
There are three types of female characters: whore (Shamhat), wife/mother (Penelope) and priestess (Antigone). There are mixed female characters (Dulcinea, Molly Bloom).
There's only one type of male character (Christ, Achilles, Raskolnikov).
Discuss.
>>8783902
Harry Potter and Rob weasley are not the same character
>>8783902
>Don Quixote and Sancho are the same man
>Christ and Achilles aren't fundamentally different
>>8784131
Sancho is a beast
How are Christ and Achilles fundamentally different?
Is there anywhere I can find a paperback edition of Knausgaard that doesn't look like this shit?
Also shitty covers general.
The old one was hideous, but this picture of the author shit is worse to me.
>>8783796
Learn Norwegian faglord
>>8784297
Those are still shitty covers, though anything beats authors face on the cover
>>8784324
this is the norwegian paperback, design by yngve
>Japanese light novels aren't literatu-
By definition they aren't. Light novel = pulp fiction.
How hard is it to get published in the LN industry? Seems likes an easy way to get rich (or at least make some money with a fairly small amount of effort)
Top notch thread OP
Are there any anti-environmentalist philosophers?
>>8783477
Dölään Truumppä
>>8783519
can't find him
>>8783477
Donnie van Tromp
Thoughts? Praises? Concerns? Criticisms?Does it deserve its success?
>>8783346
haven't read it since i was a kid. it's good for kids and teens though. good story but i dont think it should be taught in classes or anything like that
Book 7 is literally Deus Ex Machina:The Book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebfjuk2fHJo
One of the many reasons you shouldn't forget your classics.
>tfw lost all faith and moral objectivity in the last few months
>tfw you realize Marx was right about organized religion
>>8783324
What did he say about organized religion?
>>8783339
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
>>8783355
He's talking more about social conditions being oppressive than about religious belief