Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 4721. page

>>7499765
Talk less, be silent, appear mysterious. Speak only if you are of superior knowledge in a given field. Deplete your dopamine so you look like an over-worked sage (so either sex, drugs or sth). Try not to spill spaghetti.

>>7499765
be cruel as fuck. talk down to them so hard that they don't know what hit them. approach their sensibilities and ruin them. people who say you're pretentious probably just don't fucking get it. fuck them. who do you write for anyway? you write for those losers who think that you have some sort of animosity towards those who might not agree, understand, or identify with you? fuck em. write in whatever way that's comfortable for you. polishing is fine, honing your skill is fine, but changing your entire style because some few don't like a few sneers? you have to draw the line of how far you're willing to go to change yourself for others. you might lose whatever voice you had in the process.

Self-deprecating humour

>>7502000
He's a big guy.

they're written by C-grade sci-fi authors who's only intent is money.
avoid at all costs.
also they've all been retconned.

Nothing is canon and George Lucas is a fucking child in the flesh of a hairy testicle

4/7

annon it is great
the only thing it needs now
is a marry sue

>>7501746
quality post

normal ones or Kafkaesque ones?

>>7500155
his actual stories

>>7500155
What are the 'normal' Kafka stories?

me

>>7490160
who is that though?

>>7490212
>not knowing Balzac

authors who actually try to contribute
themes and plots
an anthology of poems and stories on a theme
mostly people trying
If I see /lit/ put out one more of these meme books I'm going to puke. You're all a bunch of cowards, writing shit and memes when you fancy yourselves writers

>>7504608
Hypersphere did all of these things though ..

I never understood this meme.

>>7504382
J JJ JJ JJJUST THOO IT.

Really would like to know what the origin of the JUST meme is.

>>7504128
A preachy trite list of outmoded nonsense.

bin it

>>7504128
It's an amazing introduction to Stoicism and probably the one book that has really influenced my worldview and thinking.

The message is: don't be a worrying bitch nigga and let things come and go.

>>7504146
/thread

Mao II

That picture is fucking Hilarious.

English language?

Please stop memeing DFW. He makes American lit look like shit. He's for people who read Rolling Stone and creative non-fiction.

1. Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
2. Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
3. A.S. Byatt - Possession
4. Barbara Pym - Quartet in Autumn
5. Nadine Gordimer - Burger's Daughter
6. Joseph McElroy - Women and Men
7. Cormac McCarthy - Suttree
8. Edward Jones - The Known World
9. Ian McEwan - Atonement
10. Don DeLillo - Underworld

Read the last book in the series

About Muslims killing everyone

>>7503696
Christian garbage, a uniquely foul kind of YA garbage.

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>>7503793

>who else is an autistic chinaman

Gave zero, received zero. Merry Christmas.

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Gave 0, Received 0, same as every other year except that I usually celebrate with /a/ but I lost interest in animu so I'm just aimlessly browsing 4chan and feeling like shit.

yeah joyce shouldnt have bothered reading homer coz he couldn't read him in the original greek lmao who cares that he created ulysses

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>>7503656
So he read a shitty copy of it, lost all context and meaning outside the most superficial ones, and got inspired, so what.

He still didn't read Homer, he read some hack-job translator terrible interpretation of him

>>7503664
maybe it was superficial and shitty in the original greek and the translation was inspirational good shit

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>>7503520
>anything translated and published by Anagrama

>>7503520
Anagrama's translation of Lolita is particularly bad.
I think that's the old version, translated by Tejedor. Tejedor was a high school teacher in Argentina, and was afraid of the reprecrusions translating something like Lolita would have, so he toned it waaay down, there are a lot of parts missing too.

If it's the new version translated by Roca it's a little bit better, but not much.

>>7503520
Empieza con el Beowulf.

>>7503479
Your diary tbqh

>>7503479
Depends if by
>the respective 4chan board's approach to it
or
>the themes & style
or
>the fanbase & social reception

Loveless IS literature.

write something if I feel like it throughout the day.

Wake up at 7:30, write untill 10:30, take a nap and eat, write again from 11:30 untill 2. It's pretty great.

>>7503273

I've worked on three short stories in the past two weeks, editing and writing a bit. been working like 40 hours minimum past few weeks though so hopefully I'll get more work done once work cuts back