Give me your 5 favourite authors, /lit/
Flaubert
Tolstoi
Shakespeare
Huysmans
Manuel Bandeira
>>7476165
As of right now
Mo Yan
Marlon James
McCarthy
Mario Llosa
Lovecraft
Joyce
McCarthy
Faulkner
Pynchon
DeLilloI liked them even before I found /lit/, okay?
What does /lit/ think of Bret Easton Ellis?
He's a fucking faggot and a kike lover
don't know why people like him tbhwy
Inferior to DeLillo and Wallace in every manner conceivable. Also, homosexual.
Hey /lit/! My friend has started getting very interested in Steven Molyneux, and he is constantly linking me videos, and talking about how much he agrees with everything he says.
I think he is going a little bit over the top in his obsession. Every time we go anywhere, he tells everyone about Steven Molyneux and how everything his says is right and very interested etc.
I read a few nights ago that FDR is kind of like a cult, and Molyneux is a weirdo who no one should listen to? If it's true that Molyneux is a weirdo, how can I convince my friend to no agree with him?
bunp
Redirect him to testimonies from people he "defooed"
>I read a few nights ago that FDR is kind of like a cult, and Molyneux is a weirdo who no one should listen to?
An understatement. The guy is hysterical, frantic, generally turbo-batshit.
>If it's true that Molyneux is a weirdo, how can I convince my friend to no agree with him?
I'm too autistic to help. I don't feel like he would even entertain a principled critique. Go dig up Molyneux's mad ramblings about how much he hates his mother. He uploaded the video, then took it down, but I believe other users had archived it in time. That would probably suffice
I am reading this and I am starting to side with the "Fascists"
>They aren't actual fascists, more like reactionaries
>They fight with less food and equipment than the anarchist militias
>The Communists are split into various factions which bicker with each other and are authoritarian
>Orwell expressly states that in any war between a worker and his natural enemy the policeman he will side with the worker
Are there any books from the other side of the Spanish war? I've read FWtBT by Hemingway and it presented a similar picture.
>>7474735
>someone reads a book and sides with someone other then the Reds
>must be /pol/
>>7474409
>>They aren't actual fascists, more like reactionaries
The soldiers? My impression is that most soldiers do not hold the same believes as the generals they take orders from. Not the case with the anarchists though.
>>They fight with less food and equipment than the anarchist militias
I understand how this makes you feel sympathetic towards them. Surely it doesn't validate the ideology they are fighting for.
>>The Communists are split into various factions which bicker with each other and are authoritarian
There are more parties in the book than the communists. The book does not try to make you side with the commies. Rather the anarchists.
>>Orwell expressly states that in any war between a worker and his natural enemy the policeman he will side with the worker
I don't see why this should make you side with the fascists.
/lit/, I am going through a nihilist phase I am actually wishing to overcome it. What are recommended readings?
KJV
>>7472516
this
just be a fucking person and stop being a drama queen. Of course life has no meaning and neither does anything else that we do to fill it up. It doesn't mean that things can't be valuable, have meaning, or be beautiful though. See: The Bible
Anybody else here read this? I'm in love with it right now, there's something about it that speaks to me more than Homer.
Also what's with Germanic poets becoming anonymous (thinking about this guy and whoever told Beowulf)
thought it was a dumb manchild story tbqh
>>7472134
It's a great book. Hagen was a real asshole.
>>7472185
>obviously hasn't read it
>The main character who has no name and interactions between any other character than the love interest is found out to be the love interest's hallucinations of being lonely and the reason why everyone but her is dead
>he was actually just in a coma :(
>he teleported behind her with a katana
>The main character/protagonist/narrator was black all along.
bookshelf thread. post em.
will anon from pic related post, cause i want to ask what you think about some of your books.
>>7462166
Are you that dense?
The anon who posted these obviously got them off of reddit.
Holy fuck
Recommended literature:
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading
Ask for recommendations only once you have browsed the wiki.
Looking for books?
http://encyclopediadramatica.se/Bookz
/lit/ is for the discussion of literature.
If you want to talk about politics, go to /pol/.
Philosophical LITERATURE is allowed on /lit/.
Religious LITERATURE is allowed on /lit/.
NOT LITERATURE, NOT /lit/.
I want to get into Schopenhauer and have recently read his essay about women.
However for his longer works I am told I should read Kant?
Do I have to? Can someone please just inform about what Kant's general message was?
Pic semi related
>>7479064
Kant's message is that not only is it OK to be autistic but that your neurodiversity makes you better.
>>7479064
I would say that the first book of the world as will and presentation will make far less sense, and perhaps even seem incomplete, without having read kant's first critique. certainly you can't read the appendix to it without reading kant, at all. And given that the whole work is rigorously interconnected, those gaps will permeate through the rest of it.
You can read Schop without Kant but I think ultimately your experience will be a less fulfilling one if you do. Kan'ts other two critiques aren't so important for it.
>>7479068
Ok cool I can read Schopenhauer now
Deciding what to write about is objetively the hardest part of writing.
Prove me wrong.
only if you don't know who you are
uhm no
writing well is the hardest part of writing
>>7478721
This
Stop being such a rigid autist
I went to the library last night and did a reading. My piece wasn't very long and I spent the last half hour reading my book's 1-star reviews on Amazon.
I need a break.
I want to turn The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra into a screenplay. Are you guys interested?
>>7478630
Get with the times, gramps. Hypersphere's the shit.
>>7478630
Give amazon link for your book.
>>7478651
It's shit.
http://www.amazon.com/Crappy-Shorts-Make-Crap-Your-ebook/dp/B00GXY5NCM
How do I make sincere art? Everything I do is self aware and ironic
build up the courage to be honest
>>7478243
>How do I make sincere artdont
jfc do you have no beliefs about anything?
anyone have the quote by dfw about how women are guilty of murder and spend their whole lives making up for it?
>women are guilty of murder and spend their whole lives making up for it
- David Foster Walrus
>>7477908
That's the one, Thanks!
>I wish I was king of the world and could frame all the women on the earth for murder. Then I'd make them spend their whole lives making up for it by kissing me on my mouth.
-Dave "1/4 pounder supreme meme" Walls