Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 3813. page

File: 9kieHIz.jpg (583KB, 818x818px) Image search: [Google]

583KB, 818x818px

Summary of Story
================
In Milan Kundera’s short story ‘‘The Hitchhiking Game,’’ a young couple, on vacation, spontaneously find themselves
engaged in a fantasy ‘‘game,’’ in which they pretend that she is a hitchhiker he has picked up along the road.

This ‘‘game,’’ which begins playfully, turns out to have dire consequences in irrevocably transforming the
relationship between the young man and the young woman.

The fantasy begins to bleed into reality, leaving both parties feeling completely different about another by the end.
But the meaning of the ‘‘game,’’ and its ultimate effect on each of them, is very different for the young woman than for the young man.


How it Works
============
1. Complete your audition by e-mail, of your reading of part one. Do this before Thursday May 19, 2016.

2. I will contact the chosen actor, with the full script and supporting details on Thursday May 19, 2016. You may then complete the full reading in your own time.
Once finished, you will submit your work to me.

3. I will review your submission. If it is satisfactory, I will then pay you by your preferred method.
If there are issues, I may ask for a single revision.

4. I will combine our voices together and add background effects. I will then publish our work, and provide proper credit.

File: VjJJu1C.jpg (184KB, 800x1016px) Image search: [Google]

184KB, 800x1016px

Audition Materials
=================
[**Audition Script**](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_NolRDHGDjlbzJYNW1qeW9uRFk/view?usp=sharing)
Your lines are color-coded red. Leave an adequate pause between each line-reading for post-production purposes.
This is what you will submit.


[**Full text**](http://shallaon.blogspot.ca/2005/12/shalla-on-hitchhiking-game-by-milan.html)
A link to the full source text. You may use this to familiarize yourself with the story.


[**My reading**](https://youtu.be/F8t5RQ5tufg)
It's hard to read lines in a vacuum. So I am sharing my reading so that we can play off each other. Ultimately, our voices will combine into one work of art.

My e-mail: [email protected]

Contact me if you have any questions. And good luck, :)

good luck OP, I hope you find the perfect candidate here in /lit/

>>8037198
And this is important because?

>>8037198
Fucking dropped, I'll make sure to never ever be in the same room as this edition

>>8037424
failure is a form of sincerity.

>>8037074
you mean "overtly for profundity but covertly for glory, love and praise"

too bad you suck, op

>>8037089
not as much as your mom did on my nutsack, my main man

I got Walking by him and got 10 pages in and it made my head hurt... Not in a "the book is bad" way but in a "I guess I'm a dumbass" way

Why this guy so obsessed with Wittgenstein?

I'm reading Holzfällen now. I've only recently realised how great a reputation Bernhard has outside of Austria. I find it kind of unexpected because, to me, his work seems to rely pretty heavily on being familiar with Austrian / Viennese society and culture (the cultural importance of the Burgtheater, particular streets and neighbourhoods of Vienna, the historical significance of Heldenplatz, etc.). I'd be interested in hearing anyone else's thoughts about any of his works.

picture of dorian gray

>>8036936
C&p or brothers k

thats a random list... Dorian Gray is the shortest if you are just trying to quickly bang em out. But do yourself a favor and read one of the Dostos

Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth

File: 1463034806459.jpg (45KB, 570x487px) Image search: [Google]

45KB, 570x487px

>>8036844
>It's my birthday
me too

>>8036844
>>8036934
Happy Birthday brothers.

Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
Murphy by Samuel Beckett

Cool, now I have to read it

>>8036821
Comic book guy was based on the main character most definitely.

There's differences, of course, but the book has the same feel as the best of The Simpsons.

I liked it. What was Ignatius supporsed to represent? I know he was more than just a character made for cheap/ quick comedy but I don't quite know the full significance of his personality

gene wolfe's series about severian?

>a messy and convoluted story regarding a torturer who wouldn't stop rambling

my diary tbqh

I read the first one and A Series of Unfortunate Events immediately popped into my mind. The second one kind of kills my idea though.

>>8036654
>Remember staying hydrated is important! haha
>haha

what the fuck is that mate

>>8036654

>What are you wearing while reading?

Nothing. The mind is only as free as the body is.

> What are you drinking and eating while reading?

Doing anything while reading? Distractions.... Fucking pleb

> Do you match your cup with the book cover or the book's theme?

Covers? Fucking pleb, colors can distract you. I'm reading in a completely white room with no furniture whatsoever. The only thing I have with me are white pages with my reading material printed on them.

> We all know that reading is so much more than the content of the text, it's a life style!

You're wrong. It is life itself. Fucking pleb.

> This is how I read for those who are interested

Slit your own throat with the loose pages of your favorite pleb book you fucking pleb.

>>8036654
mate if you just want to talk shit about booktubers while simultaneously wanking off over them there's already another thread about that

>>8036522

>alpha/beta dichotomy

Was Hitler alpha or beta?

>attractive girls
>UK

They all look like fucking potatoes

Fucking nation of inbred jugheads with big dumbo ears

>birthplace of the english language
>oi may' das da truf innit da bin lorry comin roun' da corna innit

>>8036534
But that's not true, and what's so embarrassing about your post is that you obviously know it isn't. Play the tape: So there I was returning to my dorm room at the University of Oxford (Jesus College for all those in the know) when I turn a corner and almost collide head-on (literally) with a girl who is about six inches shorter than me, brown hair, petite figure, the kind of girl you'd call "cute" instead of "hot" without meaning it in a mean way or anything. The kind of girl you could marry and take home to meet your mother, the kind whose cuteness emanates into every aspect of her life including (I would later discover) the way her bedroom is decorated and her taste in literature and movies and the way she would always kiss my chest and rub the tip of her nose back and forth the place she'd kissed....but more of that later. So I obviously said sorry and so did she, and the fact we said it at pretty much the same time and then repeated it again in unison made us each smile in a way that was on the verge of becoming a laugh. She had this really natural and unaffected smile that wrinkled her eyes and lifted her cheeks and showed her teeth all the way back past the upper incisors. I was smitten. And I'm not easily smitten. Just ask my friend Jonathan. [Jonathan drops his newspaper for a moment and asks in a droll voice whether I am bragging about my wild romantic life again, which of course I am]. In just over seven months of attending university I had bedded fourteen girls, fourteen more than I had bedded in my life prior to my first entering my dorm room and putting down my open-topped cardboard box on the single bed and looking around the silent room with its bare walls and sparse arrangement of furniture. I had sex with girls whose parents had titles and family crests and who were familiar with extreme wealth in the same way I was only familiar with breathing. I had sex with black girls and hispanic girls and Jewish girls were by no means strange to me on the day I turned that corner on the quad and looked into the eyes of a girl I knew, perhaps only unconsciously at that time, I would call my girlfriend. Now you might want to ask what's so great about a girlfriend? I mean if I'd already had sex with so many girls and made them so besotted with me that even when they saw Amy and I walking around with our palms tightly sealed I would receive text messages and emails asking in no uncertain terms to visit them right then to do what I wanted to their bodies. But with Amy I knew right away that I wanted more than just her body, though her body was in itself to beautiful that any man would be lucky to enjoy it for even one night. No, with her it was beyond physical. And so when we'd each apologized (twice) and smiled in that open and unguarded way I asked where she was rushing to and she replied that it was only to the library, where one of her books was due that afternoon. We stood there for a moment unspeaking but it was clear each of

>>8036407
Have you read the standard recommendations like 1984 and Catch-22 yet?

Have you read the kavela epic

>>8036407
Gravity's Rainbow. After that, The Recognitions.

your pleb

>>8036293
He's writing about his depression, it's 3000 pages of him exploring all the melancholies.

Why is NYRB so goat?

i never understood what NW's point was

for me it was just japanese autism - the book

>>8036240
That's not the point of this thread. We're talking about good and memorable times spent reading.

>>8036232
As I was reaching the end of In Search of Lost Time, I was desperately trying to find the perfect place to finish it. I became anxious, left my room and went downstairs, to the attic and back in my room again. Nearing the end, my heart was beating fast and I felt uneasy. After I had read the last page in bed, I couldn't really believe that that book, in which I was invested for such a long time, had finally come to an end. I then decided to reread the last page for a while. Rereading it moved me deeply, and I only stopped reading when the tears in my eyes blurred my sight. Unable to read any further, I put the book away and began to cry.

It was also my birthday.

>>8036215
>Harry
>Hermione

Hesse confirmed as a hack.

>>8036793
hoooooly shit what a fucking plagiarist

>>8036215
Why do you relate to the character so much?

>Dreamt about writing a novel for a decade
>Can't think of a single idea
>Haven't written a single line

Stop complaining

Yep. Finished editing a short story one month ago after two months of work. Didn't write shit since then. It's exam season tho, guess I'll go back to writing after that.

>decided I want to stop studying STEM to pursue my original passions, literature and philosophy

>play vidya all day

slightly hyperbolic, but basically true. FML