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Who is a /Dick/ens here? I have almost finished the Pickwick Papers. I enjoyed it, but i was expecting something else. Maybe i should not hold high expectations for his first book.
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>>8598181
just read great expectations and be done with him
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>>8598207
Really? What about David Copperfield? I thought he was "The greatest british writer".
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>>8598256
the magician? wtf
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Why are plays praised while movie scripts hated on?
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>>8598163
They're not. It's just this is the literature board, not the tv/film board.
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Movies are just garbage desu
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>>8598185
what if i told you that you are the garbage
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There will never be another writer like him.
He was the best EVER.
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He's french so it's no surprise, it's really a normal thing. Being a hack too though is also common for french writers after the latter part of the 20th century.
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>>8598142
Tournier is fuckin legend. He would have got a Nobel if it hadn't been for Le Clezio in 2008
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>>8598136
Best works?
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I just finished reading The Plague by Albert Camus and i think i did not fully understand the philosophy behind it.
As far as i understood Camus implied that only people survive that show solidarity with the plague?
What does this mean i feel like i dont understand what he is trying to say?
I am rather new to philosophy and just trying to understand
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bump for interest.
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>>8598084
He's reminding people that they're always-already dying
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This book was a bore
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What are your views of this book?
Is it worth reading the English translation, even if a lot of Rio slang and Brazilian geography & cultural references go over my head?
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>>8598074
Why don't you read about your own culture, cuck?
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>>8598082
>Muh hivemind
What did he mean by this?
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>>8598074
One of the greats
Really timeless and universal
Go for it OP, you can't go wrong with Augustine
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ITT:
Post your best obscure thinkers and their works.
i start:
>Everything of Emil Cioran
>Last Messiah by Peter Zapfe
>Socratic memorabilia by Hamann
>Alexander Piatigorsky (u need some russian)
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>>8598069
Breivik
Elliot Rodger
Unabomber
Milo
Hitler
Sam Harris
Spengler
Evola
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>>8598077
>Harris
hack, not even thinker
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>>8598069
Cioran isn't obscure by any means.
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Hi /lit/ what do you think of my anime portraits of Irish Modernist novelist and playwright, Samuel Beckett? Feedback appreciated.
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I really like them OP. Try taking a picture from a more top down perspective if you want specific, constructive feedback though.
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cool, do you have more?
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cute
>start reading a regular story
>turns out it's a yarn
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>reading a yarn
>finish
>am now shirtless
ay dios mio!
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> start reading a yarn
> turns out to be a thread
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>>8597992
Lol. How many times is this nigga gonna spin?
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He walks around like the patron saint of literature. Anything important that comes out, he has to be one of the people to remark upon it. Like any of us give a damn that he approves of the latest literary craze. He is so insecure about the world passing him by, or of being irrelevant, or that his tired middle brow boomer writing will die the same way that generation will. No one will bother picking them up within 100 years.
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>>8597901
>being emotionally invested in Stephen King
kys
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>>8597901
Whoooooooo
cares
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Nobody thinks or has ever thought that Stephen King wrote "literature," including him. Stop doing drugs.
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/lit/'s opinion on this?
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I read it recently primarily for his thoughts of tradgedy. A lot of it seems obvious, but he's the one that codified it in the first place. A bit like the three-act structure films script guy.
I'd be interested on a deeper analysis. I've always found Aristotle quite cold compared to Plato, but this was the first thing of his I'd read I found easily engaging.
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does anyone here know how this work was viewed in antiquity?
did authors consciously try to adhere to it like renaissance writers did?
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>>8598097
Check out Explanation & Understanding or Time & Narrative, by Ricoeur
Frye also has interesting interpretation
Are narrators considered characters
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>>8597856
Sometimes
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>>8597856
Sometimes the narrator is the main character
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>>8597869
Are you the real CW Smith?
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Do classics often get rewritten, cut down, censored? Who's the most reliable book retailer? I'm concerned I might not be reading the full original book, and I want to avoid that.
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>>8597676
holy shit that image is reddit
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>>8597684
Do you disagree with it?
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I wouldn't consider those books Classics, but most often raw formats are available on Columbia or MIT websites.
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It appears to me that for the most part our culture has run out of creative steam. What we have now is popular art: the popular novel, the popular movie, the popular television show, etc, but none of it is in the same class as Livy, Dante, and Shakespeare. Nobody in 1000 years from now will look at this time and care to read whatever passes as literature these days. The ascendance of the middle class has toppled the literary culture: now every man is a writer. Our books, our art--all of it is thoroughly pedestrian. There is no great literary movement sweeping away the old order and ushering in a new age of thought and study; on the contrary, at this point in time we are so distanced from our present culture that we are full of worship over antiquity and past works.
For in them, we see vital cultures that still had something to say. Their culture organism was still on the ascendant. They would have read past works as part of their education, but they would have been caught up in a flourishing scene of literature, painting, etc that would have deemed what came before as irrelevant. Now what we have is theory: we think about books, we talk about literature, but we don't write it. No-one among us is qualified to write literature, since we are all eternally bound together in grand mediocrity. Even the writer capable of producing the best prose, whose mastery of the language is greater than Shakespeare's, would not produce something relevant.
He cannot. It is impossible. Because what makes a work great is not the aesthetics or even the story the author has to say, but that it reflects a stage of the cultural organism before its creative light has been extinguished.
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>>8597670
>Nobody in 1000 years from now will look at this time and care to read whatever passes as literature these days
How much literature from 1016 do you read, anon?
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>>8597675
I'd have a hard time giving you an example of literature from that time. There are chronicles, saints lives, and other materials that seem to be only available to scholars, and even in the next century or so proper history written by the likes of William of Malmesbury is difficult to find as well.
But from a little later I have been delving into Arthuriana.
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>>8597670
I think you're just an idolater.
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ITT things that instantly discredit an author.
>Bible as a primary source in a historical work
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Captcha: Crossing the old
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>>8597487
What is wrong with the Bible? The Old Testament is a good account of the history of the Kikes.
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/lit/ I need your help. Currently in college doing Business, it's not hard but I've very little interest in it and the thought of working a mediocre desk job (ie, probably the most likely outcome of completing the degree) for 40 years makes me want to kill myself.
There are other majors I can switch into if I wanted - English, Journalism, Marketing, Political Science, Graphic Design - but none of them really jump out at me.
Lit is my big passion but the college is primarily a tech/business institution so the whole arts department seems pretty half-assed. That plus the employment opportunities further down the line are notoriously grim.
I was thinking of just throwing out the whole thing and going for a CS degree desu, at least then employment is pretty much guaranteed.
What did you major in?
What is the most /lit/ major?
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most /lit/ major ought to be english language/literature or philosophy
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>>8597446
who is she and how do I motorboat her tits and ass?
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>>8597446
Major in English. While in undergrad start building a portfolio of copy (i.e. be a copywriter/make up mock copy for made up business/real ones). Do it with friends. Find people in web design and graphic design and make whole websites. It'll look good for all of you. Start to get freelance jobs in undergrad (not too hard). Make some cash. Graduate. Keep freelancing and reading/writing, assuming you want to write for a living. Copy requires discipline. You'll become a better, more versatile writer. Either freelance forever to make money or get a full time job as a copywriter and write after work. Your call.