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Chaucer is the greatest writer of Medieval English.
Shakespeare and Milton are the greatest writers of the English language from the Renaissance period.
Dickens is the greatest Victorian novelist.
So who is (are) the greatest modernist writer(s) of the English language? Try to be as exclusive as possible in your answer.
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Why ask questions you already know the answer to?
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>>7978712
I think you know the answer. One of them you've posted, the other had breasts.
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>>7978716
>the other had breasts.
Never knew that about Faulkner
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What do you think about the "dark enlightenment"? Are they really something new?
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no one calls it the dark enlightenment anymore
Nick Land is right about everything btw
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>microeconomics
lol how exactly? aside from thinking a little bit about transactions and opportunity costs
>freedom
yeah nah, only to act in a way they deem suitable
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Ultimately, it's an attempt to provide an ideological basis for the alt-right movement, which, like practically all "political" movements nowadays, is more identitarian than ideological.
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Take a seat anon.
In 2 words or more tell me how you get meme'd by /lit/
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they told me Wallace was good, Mccarthy was bad, and the whale bits could be excised with no detriment to the text at large
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i'm insecure about subvocalising, being monolingual and reading for plot
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Where can I find some good hard-boiled fiction? Any recommendations / essential works or authors for a beginner to the genre? I'm new and don't know where to start...
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Hammett and Chandler
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I would like to know this as well. I love me some good gum shoe books with a noire flair
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>>7977882
Dashiell Hammett & Raymond Chandler... got it. Anything by them in particular?
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So, is this the most overrated writer of all time?
You guys can't actually like him, right? I mean, postmodernism is bad enough on its own ("oh, maaaaan, look how IRONIC we are, we're sooooo deeeeep, the mainstream just don't GET us"), but Pynchon is especially horrible. Gravity's Rainbow is just basically "10,000 overly-verbose and pretentious ways of saying absolutely nothing".
What a horrible writer. You should honestly, truly feel ashamed for showering unwanted praise on this shameless hack.
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just finished mason and Dixon. it wasn't that good.
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having never read pynchon, where to start? gravity's rainbow?
wanna see what the fuss is about
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>>7977608
lol don't do it man. it's just a meme
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What's the point of writing if the best of literature has already been written? Nothing anyone writes today or in the future will ever be better than the classics of the western canon, so why bother?
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False. Just look at what the 20th century produced.
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>>7976456
Typical retard weeaboo logic
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>>7976459
But what has the 21st century produced?
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Pound. From that time period, most handsome man alive. Boris p nice though.
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Ezra, frank or boris - probably Ezra
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Pound and Lispector
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Who's the best female novelist?
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Virginia Woolf and the Brontes.
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>>7976164
Willa cather
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>>7976164Me.
Does /lit/ have a mascot? If no, what do you think it should be?
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We don't have a tan because we're not children. This, is /lit/.
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>>7976146
>tfw mods never made this the image for the sticky
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>>7976136
David Foster Wallace, you dip.
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just finished this.
it wasn't that good.
a lot of random bar room banter.
seemed more like a collection of short stories.
I enjoyed it most when it stuck with one group of characters for a while.
the best chapters were when the brae read the ghastly fop.
it started off so good on the Cape.
it wasn't as funny as I heard it was.
what are pinecones other books like compared to this?
the writing was great though.
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so many good books out there and you read pynchon
ugh
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>>7975216
You should not have started with that one. You would of appreciated it more if you had read some of his earlier books first. Then you would have appreciated the book more once you know it's place in Pinecones canon
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>>7975224
what should I be reading
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How is he perceived in academia? Is he only a meme? Are his books worthy of reading?
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>>7975025
MEME MAN
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>>7975025
Well, since academia is a meme too, I think he might be appreciated.
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We are living in the age of MEME.
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>Yeah I'm a Platonist
>I think God has particular languages and one of them is music and one of them is math
47:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v45Uu8SlcsA
...w-what did he mean by this?
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he's talking out of his arse
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>>7974956
>...w-what did he mean by this?
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>>7974995
the fuck is that?
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Who read? Who like? Who got something to say about it?
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I don't have anything too bad to say about it but I've yet to find what's supposed to make it great
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Was Booker right?
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Wardine be cry mon.
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What's the appeal of The Sun Also Rises, /lit/? Having read it, I'm having a really hard time understanding the acclaim surrounding it.
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>>7974631
first
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it captured the zeitgeist of the lost generation, and the bull fighting is nice and the basque countryside is comfy
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It's proto-Red Pill literature.
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Go!!
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>implying i've read 16 books
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>>7974126
honestly this. at least not 16 good books