What are some good stories about broken women?
Ideally dark and set in the last 100 years up till today.
you dont only read about male characters do you /lit?
>>7810301
Sylvia Plath, the Bell Jar.
Now get out.
>>7810301
>i wish that slut would take her selfie and move the fuck out of the way so I can grab that monograph on beethoven and maybe the one on chuck berry
Post fashion of writers!
I`ll start with Hemingway!
>>7810277
Nigga had calves /fit/ would be jealous of.
>>7810277
Why do you hate this man again?
>>7810480
He reminds me of this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBXZWB_dNsw
Are any of your friends into reading? what do they like?
>>7810225
>friends
What friends?
>tfw no qt bookcase-assemby gf who studied Analytics and lives with you in your cozy San Francisco apartment
>>7810281
>gf who studied Analytics and lives with you in your cozy San Francisco apartment
i would probably off myself if i had to suffer that existence
Am I the only one who hates Infinite Jest but loves most of his short stories and essays?
>>7810171
I enjoyed Broom of the System a lot more than IJ or Oblivion (the only two other things of his I've read in their entirety).
I wouldn't say that I "hate" IJ but his short stories and essays are better.
>>7810171
i don't hate infinite jest, but i do like his non-fiction better.
i tend to like non-fiction in general more than novels.
Why is this considered such an important novel of the surrealist movement?
It is neither particularly good nor particularly surreal. It was actually pretty confusing to read such a conventional book coming from the very guy who wrote the surrealist manifesto that so vehemently rejected realism.
Thoughts?
>>7810164
I've never really been impressed with anything Breton did. Sure, he headed the surrealist movement, but he was far from being the best member. In fact, the guy was a bit of an asshole.
>>7810164
Surrealism was all about pseuds pretending to be deep. It was the original muumuuhouse.
>>7810188
>mfw this is true
Yeah, and Breton always was the least interesting of them. A fringe politician.
Is Stephen Pearl's 2006 translation of Oblomov worthwhile or should I go for an early translation?
>>7810190
Thank You
>>7810157
>translation
>>7810474
I don't speak Russian
Where does /lit think of Heaney?
What*
>>7810105
Yet another example of Ireland's dominance in the world of literature
damn this thread should be exploding, didn't realise how pleb /lit is
Greatest Latin American author thread?
Jorge Borges (must be mentioned). I also really enjoy Jose Donoso, much more than Bolano or Marquez. I dislike Neruda.
>>7810067
Forgot to mention Cortazar. He's good, too.
>>7810067
Neruda is hit or miss. I personally dislike him. Cortazar and Asturias are up there.
What is Donoso's best book?
>mfw I haven't read any of the novels I tell people are my favorites
>mfw they sit collecting dust on my expensive bookshelf while I shitpost daily on the chan
>>7810056
welcome to the club
>>7810056
You'll come around. Shitposting gets boring after you start reading more. Eventually you become a sincere poster, contributing to discussions instead of shitposting
we all do. I spend so much time here that I probably know about the books than the people who have actually read them
What was his problem?
>>7810043
French-Algerian former communist feels disconnect from mainstream European values?
Life must be Absurd.
>>7810051
Oh fuck.
Was this book a thinly veneered critique of multiculturalism in (then) modern Europe?
>>7810249
no, meursault is just autistic
What does /lit think about John Barth? I've heard some good things about him, but also that he's "overly-intellectual" or "soulless." Are his books really just attempts to be clever or is there more to them?
>>7809933
"lost in the funhouse" was a cool meta-short-story of his.
>>7809933
I've never read anything by him, but I think he was a big influence on DFW's thoughts on postmodernism, if that means anything to you.
I think that description fits Lost in The Funhouse well, where each story is a kind of conceptual game, but his novels are pretty loose and free form.
He's described his own writing methods as 'channeling The Muse' or letting his spine do the writing, so I certainly don't think it's his intention with his novels to write anything too clever or specifically structured.
For what it's worth I've read four of his novels (his first three, plus Chimera) and none of them came across overly-intellectual or "soulless" to me. His prose IS a bit dry and a bit janky at times though.
I'm currently in a situation where I have to leave a girl I really fell for due to inevitable circumstances. I fell for her way harder than I wanted to and leaving is gonna be much harder. Recommend me books to indulge this sad but beautiful feels, I want to indulge in them
Pic unrelated
I don't have any recs but I just broke up with a girl I fell for on Friday. It hurts but I know she wasn't right for me and that it's for the better
You're gonna be okay, anon. I like jacking off to pictures of children
Snow Country
The Magic Mountain
It’s perfect.
am i stupid if i can sum up a book's theme after having read it
You're stupod
>>7809927
I dunno. I'm taking several literature courses this semester, and I feel so stupid that I never know what the theme is in class discussions.
Deep down, I like the not knowing :(
>>7809927
Sum up some themes for us OP and we'll tell you you're retarded.
I love you all
I love you too OP t b h
>>7809910
what's your favourite book?
Please save me then.
Hey /lit, literary genius here. How does it feel living a brief, insignificant, semi-conscious life without reaching the depths of human existence and discovering the truly sublime nature of human consciousness?
My favorite Gravity's Rainbow meme is Byron the Bulb because it requires you to have read past the first 10 pages to know it.
>>7809784
I'm even more of a genius than you --easily better than Joyce, Shakespeare, and Homer combined and already canon-- and your flawed, yet precocious grasp on the nature of consciousness amuses me.
>>7809784
>brief
>human
I don't know this feel tbqh
Ask an eternal entity of pure will anything, lads