What kind of novel would he have written, had he enough time? Toward the end of his life, he focused quite a bit on reading mystery and fantasy.
Are there any examples of such that actually exist?
His novel translations are the closest things that he did to a novel, considering how much he liked to fix other people's stuff.
I don't think his writting style would work in a novel though.
>>8433222
>argentinian.jpg
>>8433222
shit tier writter desu
what is cutting edge in Literary Theory right now. If nothing is cutting edge, why not? Did Literary Theory succeed in explaining the nature of literature and now there's nothing left to do...?
it died with deconstruction
Metamodernism
Postcolonialism at the moment
It's seriously been nothing but fucking whinging since deconstruction. It's 95% chicks who don't care about anything other than pissing and moaning. Don't go into it.
Foundation by Isaac Asimov is blowing my mind!
So I am not normally a reader, and by that i mean i have not sat down and read a book in like 5 years at least. likely because i work IT and read all day on the PC.
anyways i was at the bookstore randomly with my girl last month and i see this book with a really intriguing cover, the foundation trilogy all in 750 pages, large hardcover book with gold pages and a built in bookmark. i looked up the plot and it sounded kind of interesting.
a month goes by and i end up in the same book store to buy a magazine, and i saw the book again and i was like "screw it ill just buy it". Boy am i glad i did. I read 100 pages as soon as i got home. my mind was literally blown with every page turn. I cheered in some parts, out loud, over a book....lol. I
t just astounds me how a book written primarily though the 1940s is still SO relevant today. The theories of psychohistory are so well fleshed out they nearly sound like they could be a legitimate statistical mathematics.
The idea that man has gathered so much data over the 12,000 year reign of the empire that they can use that data to accurately predict futures is just such solid foundation for a story. Then how it kind of just flips into the future with totally new characters that relate to the old ones.
The excerpts from the Encyclopedia Galactica. It is just one of the most enthralling pieces of literature I have ever set my eyes on, and it made a dude who hasnt read a book in 5 plus years read a book. just wanted to share my experience as i feel like i will be reading all of these! I am also not finished totally yet so no spoilers in the discussion if any plz
Holy crap, this is weird to see on Reddit today. My hardcover of the whole trilogy had sat on my shelf untouched for the last two years but I just finally sat down to read it last night. I've been completely absorbed every since!
>>8433209
hell yeah how far are ya? did you get that badass purple hardcover with the man sitting and the gold pages with the built in bookmark? such a beautiful piece of art. you look at it and you want to read it.
>>8433197
Good for you, OP. If you'd like a quick additional mind-blowing, try this:
http://multivax.com/last_question.html
What does /lit/ think of audiobooks?
Convenient in some situations, when your hands are busy, but I think reading should be about using your inner voice, directly from the text, and with an audiobook you're hearing someone else's "interpretation" of the text.
>>8433177
Depends on the material. If the book uses a lot of colloquialisms that you aren't familiar with, sometimes a reader can help you through things you might otherwise get stuck on. unless your blind, you need to be putting your eyes on the page.
I'll admit I used a librivox for Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" to keep me on task because of how exhausting some of the paragraphs can get. I also like to read Joyce with librivox sometimes because the readers usually do an Irish (might be a terrible accent, but it sounds good to me) accent and it kind of adds to the aesthetic.
tl;dr they're fine if you use it to supplement actually reading the pages or you have trouble focusing.
>>8433193
>>8433189
So you think it's wrong to get the majority of your literature experience from audio books rather than actual reading? Why? You're still hearing exactly what you would be reading.
Personally I'm much more of an auditory/visual person and I just can't focus on reading, so I've started using audiobooks.
Is eternal recurrence real?
>>8433176
Gtfo with your metaphysical literalist pedantic questions about the Nietzschmeister. Don't matter if it's "real," shit be the way of life you will, nigga
>>8433176
It's supposed to be a principle through which you should make life decisions, not a factual judgement.
>>8433176
Would be pretty okay tbqh.
Hello lit.
I've seen some recent interest in this genre (it's that season), so I'm considering kicking off a regular series of threads — primarily for horror fiction, but also open to related genres. Shout out to the one anon who suggested it.
I'm thinking:
• Horror (probably the biggest group)
• Weird
• Paranormal
• Occult
• Dark fantasy
• Gothic
• Mystery
• Noir and crime
• Thriller
• Psychological
• Surreal
• Existential
• etc.
I realize this is niche (even on a board that is considered a boondocks of a site that is a cesspool). I just want to get the ball rolling. I'll self-bump if I have to, oh yes, you'll see.
Also, what's a good umbrella term for this sort of fiction?
Anons?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_and_terror
>>8433167
>in the dank windowless gloom of some intergalactic imageboard, in the hollow pearly whorls found in sewerlike catalogs, in starless cities of insanity, and in their slums . . . my awestruck little thread and I have gone frolicking.
How do you get over having to be a normie in order for your writing to connect, while the very act of lit makes you far from normies as possible? Take the reviewbro for example who is intellectual and intelligent but all his fans ever do is say haha dance monkey dance. Even when he succumbs to schizophrenia their normie response is lol isnt it so funny.
What? That guy had schizophrenia?
>>8433162
> Take the reviewbro for example who is intellectual and intelligent but all his fans ever do is say haha dance monkey dance
I got coffee on my screen from laughing
When did he succumb to schizophrenia exactly?
as you're reaching into your bag, an attractive woman walks up to you to say hello (or man idgaf) what is the one book you would want to pull out at the moment to impress him/her?
my checkbook
>>8433128
The diary I kept on my dairy farm desu
"The autobiography of Malcom X" so then she'll think I'm a bluepilled progressist leftist cucked Nu-male who'll be the one in the kitchen while actually all I want isto see her get fucked by a BBC
where is the best place to buy books online? I've had bad luck with Amazon sending me the wrong editions and different covers from what is shown in the picture.
>>8433088
idk about best but try abe books
I've found a decent way to order decently cheap used books from Amazon
>sign up for free trial of prime
>find out which used sellers have deliveries fulfilled by Amazon
Some I remember in the UK are Absolute Books, Bear Books, and there's others
>use the respective seller page to search for what you want
>get cheap books with free one day delivery
The main reason I use this is for next day delivery. Plus, AbeBooks doesn't deliver to collection points and I don't like asking neighbours for parcels.
Despite this, Abebooks is quite good. Ebay can be alright. BookDepository is owned by Amazon but seems decent. You could use bookfinder.com which is quite good.
>>8433088
Do you mean used books? If so, never buy online unless you get a photo of the actual book you'll be buying. I use abebooks and filter by "seller provided images" or whatever. You'll lose a lot of the original results, but with what's left you'll know exactly what you're buying.
now that he's gone, what are your favorite books by him ?
>>8433075
Still alive according to Wikipedia so you might be wrong.
>>8433090
http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2016/08/24/le-romancier-michel-butor-est-mort_4987526_3382.html
>>8433075
Sadly haven't read any of his fiction, but his essays in Repertoires is awesome. From Racine, Jules verne, over Balzac to Joyce, Pound, Roussel and everytime he makes you see a new perspective.
>The celebrated academic Harold Bloom is a lightning fast reader; blink and he's probably turned the page – twice. In his prime he could churn through 1,000 pages an hour
He also says he remembers nearly everything he ever read.
Does /lit/ really believe this baseless claim? With that kind of mental prowess, why has he failed to become an authoritative polyglot?
All those aspects of fluency - reading, writing, speaking, listening - at the rate he can read, these should have been mere child's play to him. Based on the rate that he claims, he should have been able to become fluent in a language, to a scholarly level, in three months or less. And he has said that he wished he spoke Spanish, German, etc. But he doesn't. So why?
becoming fluent in a language is the mark of a pleb
a true patrician like harold knows you only need to master english and have barebone proficiency in the lesser languages
>inb4 'reading translations'
it's the only patrician way senpai. reading originals is the sure mark of a brainlet.
>why has he failed to become an authoritative polyglot
>authoritative
He holds arguably the highest Humanities Chair at arguably the most (internationally) important American University.
>polyglot
>Based on the rate that he claims, he should have been able to become fluent in a language, to a scholarly level, in three months or less.
An excellent memory and reading ability doesn't correlate to an excellent language ability, nor vice versa. I knew a kid in High School who fluently spoke 4 languages before 18 and could easily pick up any language, but he was duller than hell and had no interest in reading. It's silly to compare the two. If Bloom had spent a lot of time in his youth trying to learn multiple languages, he certainly wouldn't have the same mastery of the English language.
>>8433066
>>The celebrated academic Harold Bloom is a lightning fast reader; blink and he's probably turned the page – twice. In his prime he could churn through 1,000 pages an hour
Harold Bloom, however, would most likely be sure to cite a source for this truly ridiculous claim
Why did Marx complete only one volume of Das Kapital in his lifetime?
Due to an illness of many years’ duration that again and again interrupted his work.
>>8434011
Was that illness spend money fuck bitches?
so his sister could fill in the blanks
Are we still doing the Dreamscape thing?
>>8433026
im a newbie here, explain.
is it about explaining our dreams?
>>8433034
It was a group written book or something proposed a month ago or something. It was fucked up, like the other two.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DsS1icqEhvB3e9C6-1wt_Y0WOdcWUUYs5-_trQaRxaY/edit?pref=2&pli=1#
>>8433043
>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DsS1icqEhvB3e9C6-1wt_Y0WOdcWUUYs5-_trQaRxaY/edit?pref=2&pli=1#
cant understand shit
/lit/ approved?
>Forgot to post link....fuck
https://www.youtube.com/user/schooloflifechannel/videos
>>8432994
Disgust is flowing through my veins.
>reading the stranger
>ex who is engaged calls me
>tells me she still loves me
>say okay
>she cries and hangs up
Was I Iiterary enough lads?
>reading the stranger
>ex who is engaged meets me
>tells me she still loves me
>damn is it hot today
>shoot her
Was I Iiterary enough lads?
What does the stranger have to do with your ex-girlfriend being weak?
Camus supposedly had at least 3 gfs at a time.