What are some good novels from the Oceania region? I never see people talking about Australian or New Zealand books here.
>>9842609
Picnic at Hanging Rock is fantastic, as is Cloudstreet
also worth reading are the works of Patrick White, the only Australian to win the Nobel Prize for literature
they're are a simple greedy people incapable of anything worthy of note. Australia should go back to being a prison island as that's all it's good for.
Who is worse at literature, Australia or Canada?
LOL peter gay
PFFFFFFT
>>9842476
HOW WILL HE EVER RECOVER? OH WAIT HE IS DEAD!
>>9842476
>misread his name as Peter Gray
>see this post
>laugh at your childish punning on Peter Gray's name
>reread book cover
>his name is actually Peter GAY
KEK this man was eternally btfo from day one
>Literature nourishes the human soul
>Science claims there is no soul
Who's right in this situation?
Science can only validate what is quantifiable. There is no unit of measurement utilized in analyzing souls, so they're scientifically invalid.
Literature does not have this boundary not just because it's more general in scope, but also because a piece's quality is deduced only through comparisons to culturally accepted standards.
>>9843097
That said, I don't think the statements "Literature nourishes the human soul." and "Science claims there is no soul." are intended to dominate one another. Consider that scientific literature exists; is it innately futile?
>>9842383
>science is theory via induction
>induction is an act of faith
what's the conflict here?
Currently reading The Sound Of Waves. Yukio Mishima is the most based writer of all time.
I'm glad you're enjoying it!
And how does it make you feel? Do you feel good now? Have you communicated this yet?
>>9842344
tell me about yukio
why do he wear the diaper?
What say you /lit/? Do you agree? I especially agree with the poetry. Poetry with no rhyme or meter is just nauseating prose.
>>9842341
>>9842341
>i can not comprehend the present
good job
>>9842341
But what if I like nauseating prose OP
I was scrolling down my facebook (yeah, I'm pondering to delete it) and I got stumbled to this post:
"I was thinking and realized that still today, in 2017, we don't learn in schools about african history and culture. And, even though the very little we learn is, still, through an european optic. Because our country almost does not have african descendants, right?"
What do you think? Is there a real disdain and pre concepts about Africa?
Please comment.
Sure, I'll comment
>>9842321
Is this only for people from the US?
In Europe African history is never taught in public school, apart from Colonialism and a few tidbits of contemporary history. No one really cares about it, apparently.
Commenting
I offer you all my most enthusiastic contrafibularities
what do you think about karl mark and fredrik angels?
>>9842253
Mostly anaspeptic
>>9842232
Macbeth.
Hey, i wanna write something but i dont know how to do it good, have you some recommendations about how to write good, writing cheats or anything else that can help me??
>>9842131
Don't use fancy words, keep sentences short, no semicolons. That's about it, when you get good you can ignore all that.
>>9842149
ohh, amazing, it will take a lot of practice, usually I use fancy words to make the text "beautiful", (Nobody told me that :'))
use cheat codes and console commands
ITT: music that reminds you to certain books or periods when you were reading a certain book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEJpmDUMKco
(The Waves)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy4n88CjiBY
(my diary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J5gN1DwNDE
--yes yes, but where do the farts come out?
How do you sort your backlog, /lit/?
I'm trying to make a huge spreadsheet of my books but having a lot of difficulty organizing it. Is there a way to sort all this by year WITHOUT looking up the publish date of each one individually?
..No?
>>9842128
I didn't know if there was some magic site that could help me or something. Surely there's something out there.
I just pick one at random. Rarely do I have any reading plan and if so it's only about three books ahead.
who is a poet that writes in the same ecstatic way as nietzsche/stirner and will get me all pumped up
>>9841968
Whitman, Blake
have
you
heard
of
me
rupi
kapur
?
>>9841968
wait stirner writes like Nietzsche? time to finally get to him, then.
also,
Coleridge
Do you think Al Gore knows about Acceleration?
I know him and he does.
>>9841962
do you think he knows how to pocket all the money from claiming that Miami and Manhattan would fall in the ocean by 2015?
>"I am not a meglomaniacal fear monger" Al Gore assures us, as he looms over of an image of the globe.
Lurker here, I don't read too much, but a friend recommended this series incredibly highly. What's /lit/'s opinion on this book/series?
Why don't you just listen to your friend?
>>9841933
Your friend is a regular here, and he asked us already before recommending it to you
This book is something only an /sffg/ browser on /lit/ would recommend
>It doesn't matter to writers if their product is "good", they simply care about making money
>If they make something that is "bad," but it makes money, they will continue making that "bad" thing
I feel like a child who just realized Santa isn't real.
I'm a fucking idiot. How do you all enjoy things after realizing this?
not all famous artists are rich
>>9841906
That isn't true to many artists though?
Are you like 12 by any chance?
Are You making money right now, my dear Anon?
I don't come on this board at all but I just finished Oedipus Rex now I'm Crime and Punishment. Then I've got The Trial and Metamorphosis by Kafka to read. But what should I get after I finish Kafka? I have no idea.
Thanks guys.
spinoza
hegel
max stirner
nietzsche
husserl
wittgenstein
heidegger
deleuze
>>9841860
Thanks based anon.