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Why is British literature so bland and shitty?
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Check out The Cement Garden, it's got incest in it.
And Time's Arrow, it's got holocausts in it.
And A Clockwork Orange, it's got rapes in it.
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>>8725379
Why is British literature so edgy and shitty?
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>>8725331
Why is British cuisine so bland and shitty?
Why is British everything so bland and shitty?
What are some novels similar Trainspotting? Not in content, but style? episodic, non linear, changing perspective?i want to write the american millenial trainspotting
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Come on guys
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>>8725371
The Lovely Bones.
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Cannery Row kinda, but not really.
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Why don't you like Orhan Pamuk, /lit/?
Haven't you read his non-fiction?
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>>8725227
Because The White Castle was boring and mediocre and even though it was just his first novel there wasn't anything in his prose that encouraged me to read the rest of his books.
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>>8725236
Try Snow or again, his memoir.
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>>8725227
I really wanted to like him. I read The Black Book, and I found it to be dull and pointless. The premise behind The Museum of Innocence sounded intriguing to me, but the story, characters, etc. didn't at all, and neither it nor anything else of his have compelled me to skip all the other stuff on my to-read list and try him again.
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Any students of linguistics here?
It's really busting my ass (Pic Related).
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???
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>>8725216
Linguistics minor
When does this baby shit get hard?
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>start writing
>find i'm taking a lot of aspects/ideas from other media
Am I creatively bankrupt?
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That's how it works. You take a bunch of stuff you saw and mix them together to create something semi-new.
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>>8725171
Im doing the same, Im taking inspiration from a particular source but im creating my own story
Its impossible to be 100% original anyway
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>>8725185
Pleb as fuck. You are in need of arete, of virtue, of killing y o u r s e l f.
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>>8725084
can
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>>8725090
one
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>>8725090
nu-males
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Any readers with tinnitus here? How do you do it?
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I usually read outside or with an open window. The city noise drowns out the noise in the ears
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If I'm indoors, I have a fan going at almost all times. I find it's enough to take the focus off of the ringing. And the sound of a fan is soothing enough to me that it doesn't distract me.
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>>8725035
Unless you're an OIF artillery vet who believed that ear protection was a jewish ploy to infect the white man's brain with Zionist propaganda then you're just being a little bitch.
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Have you experienced these masterpieces?
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only one of those is a meme
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>not GR
>not The Residents 'Meet The Residents'
>not Dr. Strangelove
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>>8725033
>Citizen Kane
yes
>Pet sounds
isn't a masterpiece compared to Uncle Meat or Trout Mask Replica
>Ulysses
is a masterpiece that I haven't experienced yet
What are some of your favorite poems/poets?
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Kanye
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Bob Dylan
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The Iliad is my favorite by far.
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What are some nice, non-edgy, wholesome books that leave you with a sense of hope and love for humanity?
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>>8725030
Silas Marner
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my diary to be dishonest
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Why is a lack of empathy considered a negative trait?
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>>8725007
Makes for shitty cooperation.
People who care about eac hother fight harder for each other and are therefore a more successful group.
This is why the Spartans tended tenderly to each others tucci.
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Why are you a simpleton in assuming that negative means "bad" and "shouldn't have"?
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>>8725028
Answer the question.
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Any good books on the Cathars, friends?
Seems like best denomination.
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I think Joseph Strayer wrote an old school apologist history of the heresy
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>>8724991
There's only one denomination and that is Catholic.
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I thought Gnosticism would be your thing, /lit/.
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are there any full length movies/plays of Faust worth watching?\\
pic unrelated
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>>8724961
yes, pic related.
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>>8724970
cmon dont make me watch the powerpuff girls...
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>>8724983
Not the guy you're responding to, but madoka magica gets super dark. It starts all light and fluff, then floors the gas pedal and gets into some deep shit
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Dostoyevsky Translations Chart
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well here it is.
I'm gonna make a separate post for each book to hopefully keep discussion more organized.
here's the PV explanation:
>Why not P&V?
The P&V methodology:
Larissa Volokhonsky, a Russian with weak English, transliterates the text into English word-for-word.
Richard Pevear, who does not speak Russian on a conversational level, polishes her English into something more readable, maintaining the "accuracy" of the transliteration.
The final product is an accurate transliteration of Dostoyevsky's words into English and is hailed by Russian linguists for its accuracy to the Russian language.
Unless you are a Russian academic you wil find that this methodology is stilted, awkward, and leaves much of Dostoyevsky's message lost between culture barriers.
Translators like Garnett, McDuff, and especially Ignat Avsey, make the effort to capture Dostoyevsky's message in a context that English speakers can easily understand, rebuilding his works from the ground up
in an effort to clarify and not simply regurgitate. Unfortunately there is no consistent edition that collects all four of Dostoyevsky's main novels with the ideal translators, unlike P&V's substantial marketing efforts.
Here's a chart of /lit/ approved editions to help guide your search.
(obviously this is all rough-draft and subject to change)
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>>8724942
Brothers Karamazov
Norton Critical Editions 2nd Edition
Translated by Constance Garnett, edited and revised by Oddo
Garnett's renowned translation, edited and revised by Susan McReynolds Oddo
Most "literary" translation; the standard by which other translations are measured.
Annotated.
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>>8724945
Oxford World's Classics
Translated by Ignat Avsey
Moving away from the "transliteration" school of thought, Avsey rewords Dostoyevsky's works into an English-speaking context
re-titled THe Karamazov Brothers, demonstrating Avsey's commitment to expressing the "spirit" of Dostoyevsky without compromising linguistic familiarity.
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>>8724942
im gonna stop posting images for both because of post wait times
Crime and Punishment
Signet Classics
translated by Sidney Monas
Viking Adult
translated by David McDuff
(signet version is that red and black one)
Albert Einstein's most famous work, Zur Elektrodynamik Bewegter Körper, explains the most complex and revolutionary thought mankind has ever produced, special relativity, on 30 pages.
Is it fair to say that any literary work longer than this is intellectually bloated and unnecessary?
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>>8724884
literature in general is unnecessary.
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Please don't be alive anymore
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>>8724884
an innocent thread died for this