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Hey, /lit/.
What book should I get for my Spanish speaking gf? She likes Julio Cortázar and Gabriel García Márquez if that helps.
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Mario Vargas Llosa
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>>8724011
unamuno, alfau, and vila-matas for ones that haven't been mentioned a billion times.
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What are some novels that have this kind of idea about God?
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sounds pretty gnostic
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>>8723895
any recommendation on gnostic novels, my man?
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>>8723855
Why is Peter Pan a curry nigger?
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I'm about halfway through this book. I'm really liking it and it might become one of my favorites, but there is a certain element i'm unclear on.
At the beginning of the book the narrator says that Rodya is afraid of talking to his landlady, but later on the same narrator describes the landlady as shy and not prone to conversation.
If this were first person it could be easily chalked up to an unreliable narrator, but since it is in third person it becomes much more complicated. Should I ignore it and move on? Are there more inconsistencies? Does it have something to do with the Russian language? Is it simply a mistake?
Anyways Crime and Punishment thread
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>>8723769
Person B is shy and not prone to conversation
Person A is afraid to talk to person B
No contradiction detected
Person A does not necessarily know person B is shy and not prone to conversation, nor does it say person B does not engage in any conversation at all
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>>8723769
I'm not seeing a contradiction here
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>>8723769
>Library anon develops crush on library gurl
>Library gurl super shy
>Anon too shy to confess to her
You follow?
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What does /lit/ think of Joseph Campbell?
Are his books, Power of Myth and Hero With a Thousand Faces, worth the read?
What are the books really about?
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A lot of people like to dis him, but I have found his works useful for understanding archetypes and story-structure.
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I love him. lit tends to be nihilistic, so I'm sure people don't like him on this board. However, his books really stood out to me, spiritually?
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>>8723734
>Are his books, Power of Myth and Hero With a Thousand Faces, worth the read?
Absolutely.
>What are the books really about?
Comparative mythology
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What should I read if I want to increase my level of general knowledge?
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Start with the Greeks
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An encyclopedia, no not wikipedia.
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>>8723561
my diary desu
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Why do you guys have trouble acknowledging that there is no objective high and low brow division and that taste is arbitrary?
Is it because you cling to your media consumption as the only means of distinguishing yourself?
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>>8723465
>taste is arbitrary
this doesn't mean anything
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>>8723469
>arbitrary
>[ahr-bi-trer-ee]
>adjective
>1.
>subject to individual will or judgment without restriction; contingent solely >upon one's discretion:
>an arbitrary decision.
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>>8723465
High art, is usually distinguished by rarity, if anyone can do something its not that special, this also does not necessarily mean that anything one of a kind if great, or that everything difficult is great, but rarity and difficulty (inventiveness, novelty, genius, style, artistry, creativity, passion, depth) usually contribute to the effect of being in awe of a work.
Yes, anyone can like anything and potentially receive joy and value from it, for instance, an ant might think the particular leaf it is eating is the most important thing to ever exist in the world
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Is he a fraud?
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Absolutely
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>>8723325
what is he looking at?
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>>8724433
all of us
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Who is the biggest cuck in all of literature and why is it Dante?
>falls in love with her when 9 years old
>spills his spaghetti all over himself repeatedly in the Vita Nuova
>cucked by death when she dies
>puts himself all the way through hell and purgatory to get to her this dude has such oneitis
>when dante finally gets to heaven beatrice tells him she prefers chad god's alpha dick to this beta putting her pussy on the pedestal
God, what a cuck. Cuck cuck cuck.
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>>8723302
Who is the biggest cuck in all of literature and why is it Poldy?
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Good thread. I'm happy to have read your intelligent, sensible and well put analysis.
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>>8723302
>spills his spaghetti all over himself repeatedly in the Vita Nuova
Don't know anything about Dante or his work, could you expand on the spaghetti?
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What are some core Punk books?
Not necessarily anything to do with Punk music or aesthetic but any books that are aggressively iconclastic and anti-social.
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Burroughs?
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>>8723177
The Vagina Shit of Lucifer McNiggerdick or whatever the fuck it's called
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Burroughs, Ballard, Feral House publishing
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What are some female authors that you say have literary merit? I don't like the meme that women don't contribute anything worthwhile to lit, as I would disagree from some authors I have read, and so I'm curious if anyone else is favorable of any woman author?
I just started The Bell Jar, and it is simple, but it's got wit and intuition that I am falling in love with so far. But, some of female authors that I have read and liked a lot are Ursula K Leguin and Anna Kavan.
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Virginia Woolf is very good
I also recommend Carson McCullers
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>>8722991
>Carson McCullers
I'll have to take a look. I'm taking a Women in Literature course next quarter for this curiosity and Virgina Woolf I think is on the syllabus.
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>>8722991
fuck, and also George Eliot, of course.
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Convince me of the cause that you support
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>>8722944
destroying causes.
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>>8722944
calling stirnerfags edgy contrarians
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>>8722944
qt furry boys need cuddles
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Seriously, how can anyone even compete? and I mean ANYONE, not just writers.
Joyce is fucking ridiculous, is absurd, his power level goes beyond everyone and everything.
Im not able of articulate how blown away I got after The Sirens and everything that goes after.
He literally went beyond music and thats just one little part of the book.
And then he goes and drops Finnegans Wake like if it wasnt enough with this.
Is Joyce the ultimate genius? the endgame of humanity, consciousness and being?
Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are what the internet was supposed to be but failed.
They are a protean mirror to the self, everything beyond and all the shapes time can give to it.
How do you think being inside Joyce's head was like?
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Saved for future use. Thanks, brother.
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>>8722838
I have'nt read it yet, thanks for ask
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Hola buenas tardes, una consulta, tal vez me puedan ayudar. Hace 13 años encontré con mi mejor amiga un libro, cuya portada para esa edición, según recuerdo, era un hombre de traje que en lugar de cabeza tenía una mano, y sostenía un cuchillo. El color de fondo de dicha portada era un verde musgo creo. El autor era un hombre, según la foto se veía joven, posiblemente norteamericano. Según recordamos con mi amiga, estaba narrado en primera persona, era un hombre claramente demente, dejó una sensación muchos años después de ser una novela muy oscura. En uno de los pasajes el estaba en la cama de un hospital, no podía comunicarse pero escuchaba perfectamente las cosas que sucedían en la habitación. La enfermera le daba sopa hirviendo y se le formaban llagas en la boca, y maldecía por tener que limpiar sus heces. En un capítulo, mi amiga recuerda bien, el mataba a una familia en una granja, describía el olor a podrido dentro del tambo, prendía fuego la casa y "tocaba su sexo" (según la traducción) viendo el fuego. Agradecemos si alguien tiene alguna información al respecto. Muchas gracias por el espacio.
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Este post me ha convencido para dejar el pozo de mierda en que se ha convertido /lit/ en los últimos meses. Por favor, vete a Hispachan o a Yahoo! Respuestas, maricón.
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Soy una mujer asi que lo de maricón no corre.
Que mal educado/a fue solamente una pregunta.
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>>8722758
Perdona, guapa. ¿Tienes whatsapp? ;)
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>Homer
>Virgil
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Of course Homer is greater than Virgil. What's your point?
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Stupid frogposter.
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>Hesiod
>Homer
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How the fuck do you write a plot twist?!
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Wherever the plot is zigging, zag at the end. It's really that simple.
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>be writer
>think of plot twist
>write it into book
>publish book
>no one wants to read your book
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>>8721832
>build certain expectations in the audience
>subvert them
boom