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>>7742129
Well it's not anything like what you described but that doesn't necessarily mean it's good. You set up a false dichotomy.

>>7742129
The movie has tits

Which author is better: Gaddis or Gass?

>>7731613
About to start the stars my destination
i haven't been in these thread for a while, what happen?

>>7731613
> Science Fiction and Fantasy General

>>7731613

>What are you currently reading?

The Mote in God's Eye

>How has the recent thread disruptions from off topic posts affected you?

they have upset me greatly

>How do you deal with it?

i retreat into escapist genre fiction

Romance languages>everything

>>7748571
Spanish is one to compete with Russian imho

>>7748562
i find it hard to listen to anyone criticize another language that can't hide from being outed as ESL in their writing.

Fixed Marilyn Monroe right up, great therapist

He is no Jung

Sigmund Fraud

http://www.cosmoetica.com/B556-DES481.htm

>>7748089

"one has to call a spade a spade"

that made me laugh. shame he qualified it as being not a racial slur after.

>>7748086
>Woman
>Worth it

nigga you serious

>>7744665
need I even say it? Need I?

dosent really matter, whatever you add just make sure its consistent.

>>7744665
Well, the second amendment to the US constitution requires that books feature a gun at least once a chapter (either brandished or fired), so I guess, yes you need them.

Eugene Vodolazkin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JnCO0OlhlE

>>7739802
Tatyana Tolstaya

>>7739802
Read any history of the soviet union with a section on literature and you'll find no shortage of this. Hosking's "the first socialist society" is a great intro to many prominent 20th century russian writers, presented within a history of life in the ussr which quite frankly you'll need to understand what any 20th century Russian is writing about.

Bulgakov
Platonov
Akhmatova
Zoshchenko
Bely

>>7747983
Bloom is a big fan of Gene Wolfe, from what i've heard.

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>>7748000

That's not altogether surprising. Being pretty virulently anti-canon, I've never really put much stock in Bloom's opinions anyway (unless, of course, he happens to agree with my opinion, that is). No one has to like anything, but I do object to Bloom's specific remarks - "He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent." What a blowhard.

The dead can't stand, pal.

>discussion of his politics
>discussion of his theory
>discussion of where to start with his poetry
>no discussion of his poetry

C-L-A-S-S-I-C

>>7747969

where does he stand as a poet?

i've got him top 3, best of his era

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>the protagonist is a woman with a woman's cock

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>>7743551
>the protagonist is an alcoholic writer

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>>7743555
>the protagonist puts girl dicks inside her

>>7739470
2666
everyone poops
infinete jest

finnegans wake

the ego and its own

Are you relevant enough for anyone in this image board to know who the hell are you?

>>7747530
Do you prefer honey nut cheerios to the original?

>>7747530
why you such a sellout bitch?

The only '50s/'60s-themed books I've read have satirized/criticized the culture of the time (White Noise, American Pastoral) rather than support it or present a romanticized vision of the time (though I would definitely be equally interested in reading something similar to your pic, OP).

>>7739975
Yeah, that's what I was afraid of. It seems like that sort of thing is a reaction to the era's presentation of itself in media. So we're just left with The Andy Griffith Show vs. Madmen as our only lenses with which to look back.

the era after it wanted to do nothing more than to poison the past; so hasty were they to cover their crime, so flushed with guilt, that they burned the library of alexandria almost completely to the ground, scattered the ashes, vowed never to speak of that time again

the 50s were, by and large, a happy, fruitful, peaceful, truly enlightened time. they represented the flowering of the dream of 2000 years of European civilization

however the greater the beauty, the more transient. no more ever again will it haunt our dreams; nobody believes in it anymore, it's the modern world's whipping goat. doesn't anybody notice that this conceals a terrifying anxiety—that our best days are already behind us, and that they died by our own hands?

I'd say some UFO diaries from the 50s and 60s give a taste of that time—but honestly, I'd recommend you just to turn back.

Too much reflection on that chapter of our past will make the present almost impossible to endure.

He's not wrong.

>>7746579
That's kinda true, though.

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Sometimes, I understand why people ironically support totalitarianism.

>>7736824
that's 10/10 actually, damn

>>7736828
It is. So much that I'm genuinely curious about how much a good quality custom edition of the book with this cover could cost.

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>>7736824
man. that's just fucking incredible.

i like this one, but yours is hard to beat.