anyone read pan by knut hamsun? is it good?
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Heh, as, oh matter a fact I have.
Honestly a single reading wasn't enough for me to grasp it's the intricacies but I still got plenty out of it; mainly for me it was a neat period peice.
The main character you can't help but face palm over he's constantly spilling his spaghetti all over the place despite pretty much having it made.
Anything specific you want to know?
>>8387464
what's the book mainly about? from what i've read, it's some guy living in a forest and then he meets a girl, but is the majority of the book just how he lives, or is it him talking to the girl?
would it be a cosy book for reading while camping?
>>8387484
Maybe it's just my taste but I wouldn't call it cozy, try a young girls diary instead (no not Anne frank. It's a real diary of a girl growing up in middle upper class family in Vienna during around 1910-1915'ish that was latter given to Sigmund Freud but really that last bits hardly important.)
Any way as for pan you had the beginning of the plot down more or less but it pans (really not a intentional pun here) out into a story of them not being able to fully commit to each other because there spitefulness/stubborness, later on a third girl gets thrown into the mix.
A major theme is MC having a hard time into-ing society cause he's so used to living in the woods by him self.
I don't want to spoil the ending but I'll tell you it wanst a happy one.
Hello /lit
I want to write a romantic yet classy letter/poem to Huma (yes the Huma).
If your post gets dubs that will be the poem I use. Any post ending in a three or seven will also be put into my poem.
First four posts will be apart of the introduction.
>>8387396
i'm a cuck, i love immigration, anal penetration, and societal degeneration
>>8387398
wew lad. that was close.
Why is she still married to that creepy ass cracker?
I saw Thomas Pynchon at a grocery store in Long Island yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person and congratulated him on the success of his latest novel Bleeding Edge, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “Want to tell me how much you liked CoL49 now? Huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifty copies of Gravity's rainbow in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be busy and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the copies and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any RFID 'interference',” and then turned around and winked at me. After she scanned each copy and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by reciting Wernher von Braun quotes very loudly
>>8387387
I want this to be real
>>8387387
That grocery store is selling some stale leftover pasta
>select all the food
>>8387392
World's oldest pasta
What does /lit/ think of Foucault and his work?
>>8387360
yes
>>8387360
>AIDS-ridden fag
>degenerate
>SJW
>cultural marxist
>continental ""philosopher""
>muh oppreshun
>pedophile
He's nothing more than a leftist cuck
>>8387370
I notice you didn't mention any of his works. I'm guessing you are wholly unfamiliar with them
Is he the master of insincere insincerity?
>his novel may be mediocre but his autobiography was based
>as are his lyrics
>as are his literary influences
http://www.passionsjustlikemine.com/influence-liter.htm
>>8387252
Go back to /mu/, retard
>>8387252
>his literary influences
>Oscar Wilde
Thanks for confirming all of my assumptions about this chump
Shameless
Hey guys
I really want to start to stidy psychology, but I have no ideea where to start or how to do it. Can you help me?
>>8387232
Study*
Lol, i want that 2
>>8387232
The Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar and The Big Bag of Worries.
Psychology by Gleitman, Reisberg and Gross is a textbook I used for a 1st year psychology course, which was okay to read. You could try Oxford very short introductions as well.
Why is /lit/ so fixated on books written by dead people?
Melville? DEAD
Nabokov? DEAD
Dostoevsky? DEAD
Hesse? DEAD
Borges? DEAD
Joyce? DEAD
Orwell? DEAD
Kafka? DEAD
Salinger? DEAD
Tolstoy? DEAD
Bolano? DEAD
David Foster Wallace? DEAD
Hey /lit/, name one piece of good fiction written in the past year.
Name me one piece of good literature written in 1247 without using Google.
>>8387170
I don't care if they're alive or dead, as long as they're white men who aren't liberals
>>8387170
>DFW
>dead
He faked his suicide to become John Green
Pardon me, but could anyone tell me the font in which that poem was written?
bump
I think that might be the Shitballs font.
>>8387157
That seems unlikely. Does it perhaps go by another name?
I'm a girl and within seconds of meeting a guy my age I can tell whether or not he has read Infinite Jest and whether, consequently, he is someone I want to spend my time with. I meet a guy, he's quiet, reserved, he stutters and stumbles over basic sentences. He doesn't smile, he laughs politely and rarely, he wears clothes that are either too tight or too baggy and which look as if they were picked from a thrifstore clothesrack by his mother back in 2008. When I ask a question his answers come in "yes" and "no"s, when I begin talking about a subject he has expressed (mild) interest in he simply agrees with what I say and smiles the way a small child does when praised by his aunts at Christmas. In short this guy is not a reader. Instead of venturing out in the world, instead of asserting his will and demanding that the world yield to whatever demands he may have, instead of turns inward, his will is inverted, he would prefer to plummet than ascend. Rather than reach overcome his anxieties and mental peculiarities through empathy and conversation, he allows them to entirely dominate his perspective and disposition, to make themselves so much at home in his distorted psychology that the disorders and peculiarities and paranoid distortions themselves eventually become the essential substance of his character. I'd buy him a book ticket myself if I thought he had the courage to use it.
>>8387140
So funneh. xD
what a book ticket?
Evening, /lit/.
This is a forum right? Where the academics and philosophers gather in public form in order to discuss the currents of the subject? Let's do that.
What sort of themes do you want to see in future literature? What themes and plots have intrigued you books you've read in the past?
I'd like to see more self-fulfilling/defeating prophecy, so I'm writing a book about it. I've finished the first draft of the first book, and I've been writing the second draft for the past few weeks. It's one of those small beginnings, everything goes to pot, everything spirals out of control type books.
Books I've read recently that intrigued me? War of the Worlds. It's been sitting in an omnibus on my shelf for the past four or five years and I finally got around to reading it. What a beautiful ending, an example of deus ex machina that I can get behind. Has anyone else read it?
Does anyone else appreciate the way Wells built up the stakes and tension rapidly near the end with the conversation with the artilleryman, only to end it with a unexpected twist he only foreshadowed within the last few chapters? Or do you think it was contrived?
Hell, let's talk! I've read almost everything, let's talk about stuff, yeh? Let's talk about anything!
BREASTS
>>8387087
Let's talk about how much women and nonwhites are inferior to me as a white man
>>8387099
Perhaps you're right. If we look at the establishment of society as a whole, it's been men that led the charge. Sure, maybe it's been shaky at best, and apocalyptic at worst, but the human race has been chugging along as a somewhat cohesive system for the past several thousand years, and now we've given woman rights, and accepted the inevitability of diversity and multiculturalism, and we're seeing the collapse of the society of men ever, and the seeds of a genuine apocalypse have already been sown.
But I doubt it. It's just a chink in the gears right now. We'll stabilize, and women and men and blacks and whites and everyone else will find their place and we'll all be happy for another iteration. Or we won't. Maybe we'll destroy ourselves in pursuit of an egalitarian impossibility.
I think that continental philosophy is better than analytical. What do you think?
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>>8387051
Better at what?
>>8387051
I disagree. You actually have to read some analytic philosophy past the positivists to hold a valid opinion
JEST
FUCK
MY
INFINITE
what is the deus ex of /lit/
pls no gibson stephenson pynchon anton-wilson or dan brown
i want that 90s paranoia vibe, like xfiels
>>8387002
>pynchon
But it is Pynchon...
Probably Infinite Jest tbqphwy
>>8387013
ahhhh fuck infinite jest
>But it is Pynchon...
yeah bleeding edge is pretty on point but ive read it
there's gotta be more than like 5 authors writing this kind of thing
Not joking, start reading into a lot of occult + conspiracy + mysticism literature and wait until you start seeing the connections and degrees of separation between these things, their characters, even their protagonists
Warning: May induce schizophrenia
What does /lit/ think of Irvine Welsh's works?
>>8386992
Trainspotting is okay. Filth is better. The Acid House is his best. Probably my favorite short story collection. All in all, a lot of people perceive him as an edgy unconventional writer with a single gimmick, but the truth is he has some of the best, biting prose I've read.
>>8387021
Like Filth very much but I thought the whole reveal at the end was very weak/fight club want to be. Feels almost like it came from an era of WHOA TWISTS because it was integral to the formula.
Marabou Stork Nightmare is fucking great
what's his most cringe literary reference in a movie?
>>8386945
wrong board OP
>>8386949
fuck you're annoying
>>8386945
the one where he fucked his daughter