Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 3280. page

Don't know/haven't read most of yours
>Kafka's collected works
>Crime and Punishment
>The Sorrows of young Werther
>Harry Potter
>Faust
Haven't read much yet. Recommend me shit.

>Abaddon el exterminador (Sabato)
>Finnegans Wake
>Moby Dick
>The Satanic Verses
>Lyric Poetry (Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz)

19/m/usa
>the road
>hard rain falling
>huck finn
>the sound and the fury
>crying of lot 49

>>8312909
No literature is for women and numale brainwashed cucks.

Real men are STEM who think with rationality and logic instead of muh feels like leftist liberal art faggots

college humanities are dead

ima hopeless romantic,
I search for beauty and thoroughness;
suck muh ass

>>8312841
'OncEomen' by Schopenhauer.

Totally changed my life for the better

My Twisted World is up there as well

>>8312856
On Women*

>>8312804
Joyce, Beckett, Kafka, Pynchon, etc.

File: surreal literature.jpg (1MB, 1697x2599px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1697x2599px

>>8312804

>>8312804
Anything by Flann O'Brian.
Anything by Daniil Kharms.
Short stories by Leonora Carrington.
Anything by Urmuz.

They're all very funny and short.

>>8312749
I don't have Mary Sue issues because I'm not fucking retarded

>>8312774
Somebody began writing way too late :-)

My self esteem was too low to ever have a Mary Sue, all my characters since I started writing have been deeply flawed and generally self-deprecating in some way. Now, self inserts? I got tons of those.

truth is more beautiful than falsehood

I don't want to.

put simply, aesthetics are an appeal to truth. the latter is the source of the former; as such the greater relative magnitude of truth is naturally more "essential" owing to its greater proximity to the good.

>>8312667
No. But it's very, very good

The best novel is Anna Karenina.

Hounds of Love > Dreaming > Lionheart > The Kick Inside > Sensual World

>>8312639
>By Tao Lin, P. 13

love this

Damn, those are two people I would never want to have to choose between.

Think they're both shit. Incredibly obvious, trite, defeatist reading.

File: 7Ts5AHN.jpg (127KB, 960x638px) Image search: [Google]

127KB, 960x638px

>>8312585
>exert
One of those "heard it but never read it" words, friendo?

>>8312585
rly makes u think

File: gallery-statue.jpg (29KB, 319x213px) Image search: [Google]

29KB, 319x213px

Ateo por Arabia iba raro poeta.

>>8312530
no

>>8312530

I give introductions a 5 page leeway. If they haven't proven their worth after that I rip them out of my copy.

Plato didnt read it so why should you

I read on my phone on my way to and from work.
If you want to read, you'd find a way asshole.

>>8312523
Seems like a hassle and I was just wondering if there's a better way.

I dont like audiobooks because they dont allow you to fully appreciate the prose.. Also if its a dense book you might want to reread certain passages which isnt really possible this way

>>8312514
What kind of contests exactly?

Some small scale contests with 20 participants who can balery Engrish could be easy to win. If you can find something like that. (Gee, I wouldnt mind taking part in that, actually)

>>8312534
the ones that get you published in some real editorial.

>>8312483
>My ar*e
Took me about 20 seconds to decode this

I need some sleep. Goodnight /lit/

Just pick your favorite writer, analyze how his prose is built, try to apply what you can in a story of your own. You have to grind a little, but unless you really have no talent the challenge is to create artistic significance in your prose, not just be able to describe things.

>>8312494
But that's the issue! I am not really sure I even get it all. With poetry, I can specifically identify the peculiarities of whichever poet, and when re-use an expression or an element from the work of somebody else, I can usually tell where it came from if it was not intended to link the two works outright.

No such abilities with prose.

File: a0e87d44109842bfc914f0a21b85fc5c.jpg (171KB, 736x925px) Image search: [Google]

171KB, 736x925px

I wonder how many times I've seen this thread...Hmnn...

Anyway, I reject whenever students call Dante's work Divine. It should be just Comedy. That's what Dante calls it, and for a number of reasons. First, it describes the ultimate trajectory of the poem which ends in happiness, working from catastrophe to cohesion. Secondly, Dante adopts the vernacular, the so-called vulgar, Italian tongue, rather than Latin which was at the time the language of philosophy and great cultural exchange. In this sense he is being humble, rather than having a high-style like an elegiac tragedy. Thirdly, the implication is that there is no neat, clear separation in his hierarchy from the high, middle, and low. The Pilgrim's ascendence to see the face of God and comes back to earth to tell of the Love that moves the sun and the other stars is really a sign that the low can become the high and the high can become the low. That which is humble such as the experience he is describing can find extraordinary religious ecstasy which can convey revelation, not being the revelation itself but the exposition of it and more than all its lessons.

PS I prefer John D. Sinclair's Oxford tomes for a more prosaic translation, and Mark Musa's translation for something more lyrical.

File: thechaaart.jpg (867KB, 1400x5316px) Image search: [Google]

867KB, 1400x5316px

here's a chart that might help you
Also want to ask this, if you don't speak Italian is English generally the best option for a translation? Just wondering if French or Spanish may be better

don't bother, it's not that funny