I've been reading a lot of pessimistic but what are some writers of poetry that will make me feel the same way?
Daniil Kharms
Alfred Jarry
Jacques Vache
Harold Pinter
Samuel Beckett
Edward Gorey
>>7754800
Early T.S. Eliot
Blaise Cendrars
>tfw your 'novela' is very Pynchonesque, Wallacesque, a lit bit Kafkatian ironically self concious, post post modernit full of foreign words, references and metaphors
>(you)
>Kafkatian
How Kafkaesque
>>7754539
Is there a fantasy actually worthy of respect from /lit/ something that is deeper and more fleshed out maybe even closer to life like urban fantasy?
Gormenghast
Gene Wolfe
Try the works of John Crowley, OP, especially Little, Big.
Do writers actually enjoy their own stuff? I've heard of a lot of professional musicians not being able to listen to/not liking their own music so it got me thinking
Post boipussy. I've already been denied a pic of a thick eight incher on here earlier, and, I need a fix.
I go through periods of loving/detesting my work while writing. As I'm editing I'll (obviously) read it a shit tonne, and then once I'm finished I'll never have the urge to read it again
>>7747291
Not sure, it was trimmed shortly after the anon said he was at work.
I don't want it in my ass, just my mouth, or hand, or in front of my eyes.
What are some good books about norse paganism?
What are some good books about horse Reaganism?
Poetic Edda
>>7755004
There isn't much out there specifically and exclusively on Norse paganism I'm afraid. Internet articles are probably your best bet.
It is a fundamental failure of modern literature that there is nothing that takes in to account picrelated or vidrelated.
Where is the real shit? Why are there vast areas of culture and the human condition that are not depicted anywhere in modern art?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48EiVFq2K58
One of the key parts of artistic creation is choosing what's worth depicting and what isn't.
>>7753950
>>Where is the real shit? Why are there vast areas of culture and the human condition that are not depicted anywhere in modern art?
look, the humanity is hedonistic: we love pleasures and hate pains. sex is the best pleasure for most people and the feeling to be validated by idols is indescribable.
the entertainment industry understand this and your situation that you wish to be depicted will only be mentioned when people want to feel better about themselves, aka when they want to think that they are less hedonistic than they are.
Its the same shit thats been going on since Biblical days
Should I read East of Eden?
best of steinbeck imho
>>7755012
I don't know, should you? xDDCDDD
>/tv/ has the Oscars
>/v/ has e3
>what does /lit/ have ?
Imo the most important event all year round for literature would be the Goncourt prize but there's hardly any discussion about it when it is announced, maybe even the people taking literature as a main source of escapism/entertainment conceive it as a dead media with nothing new to deliver ? On the positive side it can be seen as a meme proof media that focuses on the essentials and not on the latest trends ?
>>7754727
The Nobel Prize in Lit.
We have had lots of threads for it every year. I still remember the thread where Llosa won it.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/
I think there are probably more prizes for writing than any other media. How are you not aware of this? And the Goncourt prize the most important one? That's Francophone lit ONLY. That's retarded.
>>7754739
OP is French. You can tell by the way he puts a space between the end of the sentence and the punctuation. Naturally he thinks he's the center of the world. Americans do too, hence the backlash from /lit/ in all the Nobel threads about the lack of American winners lately.
Could we talk about art (drawn) vs. writing for a bit?
Something that I find slightly frustrating about writing is that people often lack the attention span to read.
With drawings or a painting you need only but to see the image for a moment to take it in. Of course the longer you look the more detail you may see, the more nuances you might uncover, but at the core you really only need 5-10 seconds.
My fiance says, "But does a drawing really stick with you like a book?" And I don't think so. Is that because the work is effectively done for us with a drawing? Nothing is left to the imagination with drawn art. Or is there more to it?
>>7754681
>My fiance
fuck off normie, no one cares
>But does a drawing really stick with you like a book?
I don't think so, because each is asking something of the audience that is fundamentally different from what the other asks. A passage from a book gives the reader context through the text both before and after the quote, while a painting leaves those dimensions of time completely nonexistent.
>>7754695
>>/r9k/ with you
Is there literature that helps me cope with depression?
In the Buddha's Words
The Spiritual Guide of Miguel Molinos
The Magic Mountain
I just finished Siddhartha and although a lot of the ideas of spiritualism weren't anything that I believe in I found the prose and choice of language to be a greatly cleansing and uplifting. I felt transcendent of my depression for a while afterwards. It might help you for a while too.
Do you think he is autistic?
>>7748040
Every genius is. It's an affliction that we must endure for the sake of greatness.
>>7748056
>we
kek
>>7748040
>Do you think he is autistic?
what did he mean by this?
ITT:
Essential Man books.
>>7754733
Becoming a man, you mean.
The Road and Beowulf and The Odyssey
>>7754735
time to rec every bildungsroman ever
I have my 30-min lunch break but I have 0 inspiration today. What are some gud lit-related videos/channels ?
I want to train her to be a professional of paizuri.
Show me ONE worthwhile psychology book
Pro-tip: you can't
greeks
/thread
man and his symbols
>>7754427
There must be a word to describe taking cynical pleasure in the icky, dark parts of humanity.
Sneering, cynical, sardonic. All of those kind of skirt around it. There must be a better word. Think about the kind of pleasure you get from watching To Catch a Predator.
>>7753563
seedy.
sadistic? schadenfreude? morbid? seem to be usual words.
>>7753637
schadenfreude is pretty close. It's not quite specific enough.