>you only want to be a writer so you can live off your intellect and not have to work hard. But you aren't nearly as smart as you think you are, you aren't nearly as original or creative or special. You fight the reality of how bland and boring you are. You aren't destined for anything you'd consider great. You aren't able to work on your novel seriously enough. You are too edgy and childish to make anything serious.
Feel free to argue with me because you need to prove you're right about something.
>smart as you think you are
>he thinks smartness exists
>he isn't going for a 1%er career and doing lit/art on the side
rofl
>>8703510
>>you only want to be a writer so you can live off your intellect and not have to work hard.
got me.
> But you aren't nearly as smart as you think you are, you aren't nearly as original or creative or special. You fight the reality of how bland and boring you are. You aren't destined for anything you'd consider great. You aren't able to work on your novel seriously enough. You are too edgy and childish to make anything serious.
ur wrong tho
>>8703510
I don't want to be a writer.
>There must be some good books about the spanish civil war, ri-...
>>8703479
surely not those ridiculous Hemmingway ones
>>8703479
Have you tried actual history books?
>>8703479
Homage to Catalonia is ok for pre-HST gonzo.
>man incoherently rambles about god for 250+ pages
What the hell is this book?
>>8703472
Dick is a meme author. You got memed. He's the literary equivalent of that hobo who lives under the bridge and yells at you as you walk home from work.
>>8703472
The deranged ramblings of a talented madman who saw the future, like most of his books.
>>8703480
Shut your whore mouth.
People who have written books and had them published:
>Stephanie Meyer
>Sasha Grey
>E. L. James
People have not written a book and had it published:
>(You)
>>8703455
Try writing a non-pretentious story
>>8703455
>Gilgamesh
>The Odyssey
>Bible
What planet are you on, friendo?
>>8703455
>People who have written books and had them published
aka authors?
Has anyone here read any of Céline's books other than Journey and Death?
I'm currently halfway through Journey and highly interested in Céline, so I wanted to know how does the rest of his works compare to these two.
Some find the later ones to be "too much". They do read like non-stop ranting... I think they're still great, though they might fare even worse in translation for it.
>>8703355
I see. Which ones would you consider as worth a read?
>>8703368
Conversations with Professor Y; his antisemitic pamphlets (yes really);
Castle to Castle for the late style. The rest follows, you might or might not want to keep going after it.
Post your literary daydreams or fantasies
For my kids to get older and learn to shut the fuck up for more than 30 seconds so i can have peace and fucking read.
>>8703272
Sometimes I wish I had a gf who'd move to Maine with me, where we would work side jobs to sustain ourselves while allowing me to write literature on the side.
>>8703325
>having kids
you brought this to yourself m8
Why is the Trojan War and its ramifications such a distinctly central event in archaic and classical Greece? Why is it the only semi-mythic-semi-historical account to have survived the Bronze Age collapse? Only Heracles' and Oedipus' myths seem to come close.
Or were other events of equal importance which only seemed diminished because historic records/literary works on them were lost throughout time (e.g. in the fire of Alexandria, roman conquests, etc)?
>>8703194
It united all of Greece
It united all of Greece and represents the initial steps in ending the age of heroes and lead to the uniting of people by law rather than force.
Read book one of Thucydides history of the Peloponnesian wars.
Working on a story and I could use some ideas for characters which I could allude to who themselves are an embodiment of a particular sin. I would to have 7, one for each sin, to really help give some extra depth. I can look into the characters to decide just how well they'll fit the allusions I wish to use.
Thank you in advance!
OK.
Let me get this straight. You are trying to channel the ghost of Prokosch?
>>8703196
Thank you!
If the outcome of my writings ends up being the summoning of Prokosch's ghost, then yes, I am trying very much to do that.
What should I expect?
>>8703106
pretentious, obscurantist garbage
>>8703108
Sounds like our guy
>>8703106
Most interesting social commentary since the 90's.
+ the gulf war didn't happen
Any good pics of other bookish intellectuals?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkv6s7Yqr4
>>8703056
Final bump. Maybe I need to develop a little collection?
>>8703345
There's funny and then there's depressing anon.
can we discuss this man? I've already read most of his well-known work, and a smattering of others. love the mood he creates but idk if there's anything else to it, or if I'm missing smt. before you shitpost, can anyone shed some light on some deeper meaning in his work/clarify what is means to be kafkaesque? why not just say absurd? or am I wrong?
>>8702881
Take this rebbitesque thread back to redbbt with you, faggot
>>8702881
Kafkaesque is generally used in the case of a pointless, complex bureaucratic system, but the meaninglessness does link nicely with the idea of the absurd.
What is the distinction between kafkaesque and byzantine?
Where do I start with this dike?
The first book like you would any other writer.
>>8702880
t b h just start and end her with The Waves
Where do I start with him?
Or Russians in general. I've only read Master & Margarita in terms of "the Russians"
The gulag archipelago. But its 2700 pages, so if you want something shorter read a day in the life of Ivan denisovich
>>8702852
2700 pages
what the fuck
have you ever encountered a story more intricate with everything so relevant and resolved as well?
>>8702834
my diary desu
>>8702834
every story ever written desu
no, but Behead All Satans is bretty gud...
tuck it up yer buttbutt, f.a.m.
How /lit/ are you, anon?
>>8702827
At least 8/10.
I mean, I spent last weekend at a literary conference, presenting my work and discussing literature with a very broad range of scholars. On the way home I visited a small bookshop and bought more books, then got home and read them.
>>8702827
I just jerked off to the sex scene in Finnegan's wake.
>>8702827
I read for pleasure and have long stopped collecting classics like notches on my gun, so not very.