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American Lit is dead and the likes of DFW and Franzen killed it.

get better bait
election comment killed it but i like the ambiguity of "this is going to be our new home"
revise for 2nd draft

>>8767570
Can you elaborte?

Kind of a cliché recommendation,but try House Of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski, for psychological fuckery

>>8767556
>/ck/fag here
What do you think of Redwall

>>8767556
You might like Hardboiled wonderland and the end of the world by Haruki. It's an easy read and fits pretty well.

start with plato

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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Haven't read it myself, but this might be what you're looking for.

>>8767343
The blackened tortilla soaking up the last of the soup.

The crucifixion of Christ is the most important scene for sure. Culturally and spiritually.

>>8767348
>>8767355
Besides this.

>>8767341
Anne Frank

>>8767350
>shit, I don't like this post because it messes with my liberal sensibilities, but if I attack it outright then people will know I'm a redditor...
>I got it! I'll say HE'S a redditor! man, wait till /r/4chan sees this!

>>8767368
don't act like a bitch, your joke was stupid and I'd bet the farm you never read her diary

I said it yesterday, but read Franny and Zooey and Tiger Tiger simultaneously and it will feel exactly like watching Evangelion.

>>8767264
That's great but can you answer my question

again, it's basically a reimagining of gravity's rainbow, so sure I guess

>>8767243
Come back after you've read At Two-Birds-Swim.

>>8767243
Enjoy you slave morality, buddy.

>author's intentions don't matter
>mark twain is racist for making a character say "nigger"

No. I have that same copy of Naked Lunch, it's really ugly. Why would you use that as décor?

>>8767205
I have over 600 copies of Infinite Jest, and I don't know how to stop. Each new pay check affords me about ten more, and I often go without essentials to increase that number. I haven't read Infinite Jest. I don't like Infinite Jest. I'm not even sure what it's about. But I have to have it, as much of it as I can.

The copies fill my room. Soon they will fill the rest of the house. I do not allow them to overlap - they must stand independent of one another. I also take exquisite care of these books, and spend hours of my free time, which is expected to be used for leisure, ensuring that none are scuffed or at all damaged. When my wife picked up a copy without permission, I gave her hell. I don't think I'd ever screamed that loud and my lungs were hoarse for days.

Just thinking that there are copies of Infinite Jest I don't yet own - many thousands - makes my hands tremble. Terror overtakes me. I have to buy more, just because I've allowed myself to think about it, as soon as I am done editing this post. I'm more rattled than usual, so I'll buy three at once. The local stores do not stock the book, and I have to buy online. It's more expensive, but I don't care. I need them.

I have most every edition at this point. My most prized is a first edition copy signed by the author that set me back over a thousand dollars. It is pristine, and kept in a sealed case. Just touching that case is enough to dispel all of my worries about my actions. There can be no higher than this. I have found light in darkness. Infinite light... at least that's what I think at the time. But in a more rational mood, when the overwhelming urge to consume fades away, I'm left with terror and despair. What is this novel? Why has it taken over my life? Maybe I'd understand if I read it, but that sounds hard.

>>8767205
How do you even use literature as decoration?

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Point being?

>>8767200
That doesn't mean everything is good.

>>8767223
Right, it means that potentially everything could be read.

how old are you ?

>>8767100
I wondered this also, it kind of got boring. But maybe it represents something. Boringness of everything is sex sex sex sex for the normies. And even higher up. Representing the downfall of higher man.

>>8767129
And ive never been. This is /lit/. Not many normie books here..

>>8766987
C. S. Lewis has a lot of Christian influence. Read some of his short stories and Mere Christianity

Dostoevsky

>>8766987
Look to the following authors
John Henry Newman
Gene Wolfe
Flannery O'Connor
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Leo Tolstoy (with a grain of salt)
J. R. R. Tolkien
Walter M Miller
Graham Greene
Shusaku Endo
Dante

>>8766976
Know that Joyce wasn't nearly as brilliant as people wish he was, and that the people who deify him are not even particularly smart. They tend to be exaggerators, because it's fun to be exuberant about stuff you like and read too much into it. You can handle him. Stop trying to read the "right way" and just read it. You're not going to magically comprehend it all, but here's a secret: no one can with any work, even simple ones. Nevertheless, you can understand *most* of it, and that understanding will only grow and change as you do. Also, maybe prioritize your interpretations first. You can think for yourself and still have an open mind.

>>8766976
Just dedicate time to reading every day and hold yourself accountable. Don't think about speed just think about continuing to read. Consistency is key.

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>>8767013

first two sentences there were a little shitty, but I agree with the rest.

Finish it once, then read more critical analyses.

Just read without trying to understand all of it. If you come to something that makes you feel like pic related, just read it again, maybe twice more, and then just keep reading.

>>8766950
You should seriously fuck off :D

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>>8766950
>I don't know where to post this
Elsewhere.

>>8766957
Bu...but where may I post this?

Don't. It's all cultural marxism.

>>8766928
Aristotle's Poetics, Freud on the Interpretation of Dreams, Barthes Mythologies, Burke on the Sublime, Benjamin on the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction, Heidegger's Poetry Language Thought, the essays of Pound and Eliot

The Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism

>>8766936
I've read Poetics, and Work of art in the age of Mechanical production (but from a specifically art perspective). Will look into the others

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>>8766921
B-bump?

bumpop

>>8766921
>>8767009
>>8769115
kindly fuck off

sage and hide