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Why don't Europeans care about American Post-Modern literature?
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>american
>literature
pick one
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>>7645738
>non-American
>humans
choose one
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because America is a third-world country.
Is 'She Hangs Over The Western Wall' supposed to be a Stencil impersonations chapter? It's set only a little after the last one and begins with a section about Stencil but I find it weird that he would impersonate someone like Victoria, in 'In which Stencil, a quick-change artist does eight impersonations' he only impersonated people tangential to the main story.
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I think at that point the line has been narratively blurred if there ever was one between what happens and what is being reconstructed &/or hallucinated by Stencil. Or at least the chapter veers off from impersonations to more distant stencilization
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I never understood the part about the "impersonations". Isn't it just Stencil gathering information and reconstructing stories?
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>>7645606
in "In which Stencil, a quick-change artist does eight impersonations" he is imagining himself as the primary character in each chapter. He calls himself Stencil in the third person because he wants his identity to be interchangeable with Maxwell Rowley-Bugge or Yusef. One way in which Stencil shines through in all his impersonations in that chapter is that nearly all of the people he impersonates have an infatuation with Victoria - seems more likely that Stencil is projecting his infatuation rather than literally everyone who meets Victoria falling in love with her.
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You have 10 seconds to explain any sense in reading philosophy.
>protip: you can't
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>protip: you can't
Okay then I won't try
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>>7644660
Because I enjoy it, which means others can enjoy it too.
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>>7644660
Well it is going to be impossible for two reasons. Firstly, because philosophy requires either a chain of logic or a general theory to justify itself (which could take several minutes/hours to properly explain). Secondly, philosophy isn't some kind of magical reviling of truth, which when reached will be total and complete enlightenment. It is a process and in its very nature cannot be experienced or 'reached' in 10 seconds.
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Judgement-Free Recommendations 2016-01-31 06:22:24 Post No.7643470
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Judgement-Free Recommendations
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Haven't seen a thread like this on /lit/ in a while. Post your favourite books you've ever read, and other people can recommend books for you. There isn't a limit to how many you can have on your list, and try to keep it judgement free (although if someone has a particularly want list, you can let them know).These aren't necessarily books you think are the best of all time, or most important, just books you in particular really enjoyed. My top are, in no particular order:
>The Fall - Albert Camus
>A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
>Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
>One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Hi everyone! This is my book club's first semester reading list. What do you guys think? (I picked a couple of these. Guess which ones! Haha ;) )
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Weak
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>>7643473
Hmm, seems to me you like quite light reading. Why don't you try something a little heavier? I know this might be bait, but I'd recommend something like Marquez's Chronicle of A Death Foretold
How do I become a better editor? Will editing help me with my writing?
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Bamp
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Editing is writing. You have to revise everything.
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/lit/ pls
>"Wow! That was AMAZING. What do you call yourselves?
>"The Brothers Karamazov!"
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>Jorge, che... Decime tú que lo sabés todo. ¿Cuál es la primera letra del alfabeto hebreo?
>Pues El Aleph.
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I swear Nietzsche did this with every fucking book, he created this meme
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Describe for me a sunset, /lit/
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The sun started to go down. It is now dark.
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>>7636354
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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The blazing ball of fire retreated behind the sea, its energy expended. Thus the candle of the Earth was snuffed. Her people slept.
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Will it come across as pretentious or "lol dude weed" if my stories have surrealistic scenes but the prose itself isn't doing anything particularly experimental?
I find that all of my ideas revolve around stories that don't really "make sense" as far as traditional plots go but I'm not interested in being like Joyce or anything.
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In a Gar ia
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>>7647837
read murakami
you'll be at that level if you do it properly
while /lit/ will call you pleb, it will be alright and you might even sell a few books
godspeed
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>>7647846
Fucked up
Do you mean in a Garcia Marquez style? Regarding the fantastic as commonplace and so on
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What are some modern books that do visceral violence really well? Most otherwise grotesque books seem to skimp over the details like a PG-13 movie.
Pic semi related
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American Psycho (incoming contrarians)
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Naked Lunch, though it's more hallucinatory
McCarthy in general, specifically Blood Meridian
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>>7647703
Underground by Murakami.
Seriously OP, do you really just want violence without caring about genre or quality?
The two best violent novels i have read recently are a brief history of seven killings and pic related. Blood Meridian is also excellent.
American Psycho is not, and you would be better of seeing the movie. Only /b/ types fall for it.
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I've read all this and I'm still retarded, how come ?
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You forgot this one.
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fra
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>French
sorry bud you never had a chance.
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Is there a point in writing a novel nowadays?
There are so few people who will read it and it's so difficult to actually write something which progresses literature or makes a point that is worthwhile. And what is the point of writing if nobody will ever read what you write? I'm sure there will be plenty of responses to this thread that are some variation on "Just do it for yourself" and all that jazz but let's be honest with ourselves, if you were to "write for yourself" you wouldn't write in the first place would you? Even Kafka published a few things while still alive. There is no such thing as a writer who "writes only for themselves". Writers, like all artists, create things for others as much for themselves. But nobody is interested in novels nowadays unless they are pieces of neoliberal dystopia or some other claptrap.
And don't get me wrong I'm not saying I am such a genius or anything. That's part of my dilemna. I love to write but I feel like there's no point in taking the time and pain to work on a novel if nobody is going to give a shit about it or if it is going to just be a mediocre piece of vanity that make no contribution.
It's all just so useless. What do I do in this situation?
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If it is good enough someone will read it.
You have to separate your anxiety from your talent, at least you are suppose to.
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"I can't go on, I'll go on." - Beckett
Does no one see Delillo's irony through Bill Gray? The novel is both useless and potentially useful, even within the margins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DTePKA1wgc
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>>7646909
>I love to write but I feel like there's no point in taking the time and pain to work on a novel if nobody is going to give a shit about it or if it is going to just be a mediocre piece of vanity that make no contribution.
Write a novel because you want to. Write it for yourself.
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my existential dilemma 2016-02-01 01:19:37 Post No.7646734
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without sounding too pretentious, i think this is one of my biggest problems in life: i want to be a logical thinker and be objective about things, and yet when i try, it seems to lessen my enjoyment in life.
for instance, if i'm really enjoying anything, like a movie, or a walk in a park, it seems to break the spell when i really try to analyze why i enjoy it. its like when you have fuzzy feelings for someone you love, and you just reduce it to chemical reactions in the brain.
have any authors written about this conflict, of wanting to be logical but also wanting to almost abandon logic/thinking and just feel?
It feels stupid to say "Fuck it, I dont care about facts, I just want to be happy..." and yet often, it seems like my mind desperately wants to do this, to liberate itself from the idea of objectivity and analysis.
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please have sex
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You should check out the recommended books. They all address exactly what you're feeling. Every one of them.
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I go through the same thing
alcohol and weed will do
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>that part in The Pale King where DFW gets a closet bj from his Iranian guide while on his IRS tour
So unexpected
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>>7646719
You obviously haven't read the book, do so before trying to participate.
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>>7646731
yes I have actually. you are perverting it to sound queer
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what are some examples of good sex scenes in literature?
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>>7646410
lolita couch scene
his flamingo paragraph was a copout
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>>7646414
MODS
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>>7646410
check out the poem Goblin Market.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174262
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Are these books worth reading? I've never played the games or anything, but I've had friends recommend the book series to me.
I'm always pretty skeptical of any series that is made suddenly popular by an adaptation because people who don't read books then often give the source material undeserved praise.
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Short story collections are kinda okay, rest is shit, translations are shit, video games are better.
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Sapkowski copied Elric!! Disregard friendo