Which writer has your favourite prose and why?
>>6397852
Wolfe. He is immersive and crafts something very real, mental images I got from here stick with me like no other.
>>6397856
Do you mean Gene Wolfe?
Nabokov.
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>>6409601
Were very intellurgent!!!
>hurrrrrr ad hominum ad hominum asidoafoahfa
you guys are fucking idiots, why would I ever watch this
Thoughts?
>>6401830
The ending of "The bell jar" is sort of disappoiting.
I didn't even had time to feel good for her, it just felt rushed and "deus ex".
Everything that happens before that is brilliant, specially the middle part of the book.If you were asking if I would plund her pussy then yes, absolutely I would.
Love her poetry.
>>6401830
She lived (and died) a fascinating life, but her poetry doesn't appeal to me.
It's more a problem with confessional poetry in general though.
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>>6387537
what's a walk among the tombstones about op?
>Read Conspiracy against the human race
>Nihilism
>Sounds like me in high school before zoloft
>Put the book down and realize that if I enjoy my life and maintain a social circle that appreciates my presence and contributions
Why doesn't Thomas take medication?
>>6400452
>taking medication to hide from reality
>>6400452
He does take his medication, it's just worn its effects because he's old and a drug addict.
>>6400456
But the reality of my life at least is pretty damn swell. Good job. Good friends. Good family.
Was there something that happened to Thomas to make him hate life? Someone he know die?
I mean there's so much a person can do to be useful and give their life meaning. I read to kids at the library. I work at a soup kitchen. Sure these things won't last and I'll die and everyone will die and the universe will die. But why do things have to be permanent to have value?
I love the impermanent things of my life. I'd never give them up.
What is your favorite book from your own country?
There has never been a book written in Canada.
>>6369165
God I know, that's why I never posted an example. I haven't even read a Canadian book I don't think.
>>6369160
Sensacional de traileros.
Will monarchy ever make a comeback?what about aristocracy?
>>6368296
no too many people. too many damn people
malthus means control at a billion
7 billion means power to the people
btw im reading segur's book on napoleon's russian campaign
motherfucker gained a lot of weight
>>6368317
but we all know that ever more people means democracy cannot possibly work. so most alternatives are going to be authoritarian to some extent
posting random monarchs
Any Swedish people on /lit/? Even enough to have a swedish critique thread?
Listened to a CD with this genius right here reading some poems interlaced with some of his favourite piano pieces, played by himself.
Wrote some poems. Would be cool to share with someone.
>>6370006
There was not a single post when he died :(
>>6370009
People are barbarians.
Reporting in.
Currently plowing through Söderbergs works, planning on picking up something from Tranströmmer now that he's passed on.
I'd love to read some Swedish poems on here, although I'm terrible at giving any meaningful critique.
Why are genuinely funny books so few and far between?
shameless self bamp
Novels that pivot on humor are probably a greater financial risk to publishing houses than serious ones.
>>6370879
Why moreso than in film or television?
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Your 5 favorite writers, whether they write prose, poetry, philosophy, or anything else
Others rate & recommend
Balzac, Maupassant, Zola, Tolstoy, Hugo, Stendhal, Flaubert
>>6365309
Very based
Don Delillo
Lynda Barry
James Ellroy
Cormac McCarthy
Francesca Lia Block
All are prose, I can't read that other stuff.
When this book is mentioned in a Geography class, it will provoke a lecture about how the author's argument is racist
But it's not racist, it's just geographic determinism.
>>6363954
This book was written specifically to argue against racism, your classmates are morons.
In what ways are Blood and Soil compatible with Guns, Germs and Steel?
I've fallen in love with a socialist girl at the writing club I attend. What do /lit/
Go back to /pol/
no keep him pls
What kind of socialist?
Post a thing that you've written.
It can be a short poem here or you can pastebin your entire novel, whatever.
Others critique.
>>6363892
"If you use a pan to make a pancake, does it make it a pancake pan?"- Anon, 2013
http://pastebin.com/2XwcDkVm
a short story that I wrote two year ago for a competition that I thought I would at least place in
I was quite discouraged when I didn't win, and have since given a few small attempts to redraft it substanially
although in last year's competition, I placed first :)
>>6363895
>2013
Every time I look at the calendar I remember it's already 2015 and have a mini heart attack.
In his lectures on Joyce, Nabokov said it was a waste of time to look for allusions and parallels to the Odyssey in Ulysses. Was he right? Isn't that one of the biggest appeals of the book?
both Nabakov and Joyce were abysmal shit-tier critics with awful taste in lit
how they both managed to write prose with such skill is a mystery
If you notice them you notice them, but you shouldn't LOOK FOR them.
They are barely allusions and parallels when they are that blatant. I think his point is that you lose sight of Joyce's book if all you do is see it as a rewrite of Homer's.
so whats the theory behind brutalism? I can't imagine why commies would want their cities filled this disgusting hunks of concrete
Utility. Something new/interesting to look at.
Nothing more than that is needed.
>>6381400
it's total recall
it's the crisis of functionalism
it's a reminder of your place in the scheme of things
i think it's appropriate for penitentiaries or judicial systems or communist states where you want to put people in their place
>>6381400
isn't there some /pol/ art thread you can fuck off to?