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Is he misinterpreted?
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For you
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I don't know but man that's one fucking amazing mustache
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Yes, but given how grossly he misinterpreted the Bible (to the point where I don't believe he ever read it), he deserves it.
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What does /lit/ think of this?
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>>7957996
NGE is supposed to be at the bottom. Past the San Andreas Fault.
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>>7957996
>tfw you've sort of hit level six with the burroughs and mcelroy
bow down
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What is the literary equivalent of this informative chart?
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>>7957518
What are all of these
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>>7957527
motion pictures
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Cervantes > Shakespere
prove me wrong.
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>>7956236
Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth.
Q.E.D.
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>>7956236
Cervantes was a one-trick pony. Same joke for 900 pages
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I won't because I can't because Cervantes really is better
>Divine Comedy
>not funny
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>The Birth of Tragedy
>Tragedy was never born it has always existed
Guh
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>>7952339
The real comedy is our existence.
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>Infinite Jest
>finite
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Rec me some good non-numale books. I'm looking for something Un-PC with lots of traditional, healthy masculinity
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>>7963930
Reading is gay you faggot
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when did Last Man become nu-male?
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>All hail the greatest of all poets.
>All hail the supreme master of metaphor.
>All hail the greatest language craftsman of all time.
Shakespeare: 400 years of glory.
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ehh, he's bretty gud
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his sonnets aren't that good.
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>>7954283
>>All hail the supreme master of metaphor.
He truly is. Opening at random a volume, I see this:
The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar,
That spoiled your summer fields and fruitful vines,
Swills your warm blood like wash, and makes his trough
In your embowelled bosoms—this foul swine
Is now even in the center of this isle,
Near to the town of Leicester, as we learn.
not even a famous passage, and yet how powerful it is
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>david foster wallace you have only read four books in the first sixteen weeks of the year
How many books have you read so far this year, anon?
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>tfw it's been long enough i'm re-reading
feels comfy like when you find an old sweater you thought you threw out but it's still here and it fits as well as always and smells slightly of your exgf who still loves you but has to live the hell of fucking other people because she lives elsewhere now and you put it on and have a happy day knowing life fulfills you. i think it's about six
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if you don't make 52 books a year you're pretty much a non-reader
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I'm pretty excited that I've finished as much books as I have this year.
Sex and Punishment...Berkowitz
Nine Stories...Salinger
Chintamani...Premananda
Sculpting in Time...Tarkovsky
Songs of Experience...Blake
Stories of Mukunda...Kriyanananda
Be Here Now...Dass
The Eye...Nabakov
(If we count books of the Bible:
Esther
Job
Psalms
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon)
Feels good
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Am I likely to be banned (permanently) from /lit/ should I begin pasting my entire six-part debut memoir here, which at this point totals over 600,000 words?
I have reached a point in the process of submitting my work whereby I am convinced that the hierarchy of the contemporary publishing world has conspired against me, even if they themselves are unaware of having done so, in refusing to acknowledge the profundity and purity of articulation in my work. Already I have been accused of threatening an agent who mistook my eagerness for hostility, one who took offence at my submitting the same work several times under different pseudonyms, and have been otherwise dismissed either reluctantly or frankly and without encouragement both by literary agents and their pimps in the publishing establishment.
At this point I am considering offering my work for free to the readers of this board in the hope that at least a small group of precocious and emotionally sound individuals will appreciate my profound genius and Christ-like vulnerability.
Is it worth it?
I really do feel I am trapped in a maze without there being a guarantee of either an exit or a reward of some sort at the centre. My mommy has yet again entered one of her moods and has been attempting to gain access to my bedroom all day in the hope of persuading me to go to work with the husband of one of her colleagues who I gather works at some sort of construction site. Despite her being aware of my sensitive disposition and my aversion to physical labour she seems more insistent than ever that I should fulfil my alleged social duties.
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>>7953738
>mistook my eagerness for hostility
lol what the fuck did you do
>took offence at my submitting the same work several times under different pseudonyms
that's standard. if they don't want to publish you, they don't want to publish you. you're a fucking idiot if you thought they wouldn't notice, and all you did was piss them off
>offering my work for free to the readers of this board
>Is it worth it?
what you should to is take a creative writing class and develop a thick skin, because the odds that the publishers are right and you're writing is shit far outweighs the odds that you are some sort of misunderstood genius
just know that if you post your thing here, you can't sue anybody for plagiarism/copyright infringement and if you're serious about getting published you'll have to come up with something else
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Go for it.
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Calling for a pre-emptive permaban
What's the Top 5 look like for Japanese literature?
Like, who are generally considered the greats?
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>>7961870
Kind of helpful, but that still doesn't tell me who the five or so brightest lights in the Japanese literary firmament or whatever are. That's really the info I'm looking for.
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>>7961883
Yukio Mishima is probably the "best" author they've had in the 20th century. Haruki Murakami was considered for a Nobel prize in literature (based on rumours I've heard) and the Tale of Genji is kinda like the Japanese Illiad afaik
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>when u realise your literature and philosophy habit is probably making you more unhappy than you have to be
Anyone else here try to stop reading?
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if this is iq, you should definitely stop reading. books are only going to put bad ideas in your head and your head is already full of them m8.
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It makes me much happier
Try reading different stuff
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>>7960279
Any recs senpai?
I could do with a fat dose of optimism to be honest.
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>It's a Hegel tries to save Christianity but ends up destroying it episode
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>it's a Kant tries to put philosophy on firmer footing and ends up mind-breaking literally every subsequent philosopher with his labyrinthine ossified system of philosophy episode
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>>7956909
>it's a Zizek tries to explain Hegel but ends up discussing the ideological significance of Jacques-Alain Miller telling jokes about masturbating in Macedonia while sitting on the toilet watching Rear Window episode
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>it's a "revolution" episode
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>In order to understand Ancient literature, you need to have a massive knowledge of ancient history and to be familiar with the context and circumstances surrounding the creation of that work
>In order to understand "modern" philosophers such as Derrida and such you first need to have a huge understanding of phenomenology, Heidegger, structuralism and post-structuralism and pretty much every single philosopher (and their ideas) that came before him, and it all boils down to "start with the Greeks"
>In order to fully grasp Ancient Greek philosophy it is advised to be familiar with the Ancient Greek history
>In order to understand Joyce, you first need to be familiar with the works of Shakespeare, Dante and Ovid (and many others)
>In order to understand Pynchon, you need to have an encyclopedic knowledge of just about any subject ever, also it is recommended to be a rocket scientist
It's like they couldn't have possibly made it any harder if they tried.
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How do you manage to do it, /lit/?
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You're thinking about it wrong
Read what you want, look up what you can't understand or want to understand, infer the rest.
This is how you learn. You don't need to have read literally everything that influenced or is referenced by a piece of literature.
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>>7948385
>You don't need to have read literally everything that influenced or is referenced by a piece of literature
but it is more enjoyable if you do
but yeah, context doesn't matter if it's a good piece of art
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Does the fact that J.K Rowling never explicitly stated the race of Hermione mean it's an acceptable interpretation for a reader to interpret Hermione as any race they feel like and nobody can suggest otherwise or say that they're wrong? What do some approaches of literary theory/criticism have to say about this? What does /lit/ have to say about this concept?
Everybody knows that Hermione is meant to be white. Everybody knows that J.K Rowling must have had a white person in mind when she was writing Hermione, and in fact probably never wrote it down because it went without saying.
I'm genuinely curious what lines of thought have probed this kind of issue because it opens up all sorts of cans of worms about what you can start claiming about characters through literature if the absence of an explicit statement to the contrary or affirmation of opposing state is all you need.
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>>7957093
Just report and hide.
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>>7957084
Harry Potter is not literature. Go to reddit if you want to talk about poorly-written children's stories.
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Who cares what "Just Kidding" Rowling has to say or write?
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Why is Kafka one of the greatest literary minds of the 20th Century?
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>>7956954
because teenagers love him
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Hint: It has nothing to do with teenagers
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>>7956954
He probably ate his vegetables