Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 955. page

>>9625537
You'll be fine as long as you have synesthesia.

/lit/ is full of extremely insecure mediocrities who can do nothing but posture

keep reading and stop coming to this board

work hard, little bitch. get off /lit/, go read.

before you can be good, you have to know you are bad-- most of us never make it out of the delusion

>>9625512

Rushdie

@myownaccount

I dunno but his interview with alan yentob is pretty GOAT "philip roth unleashed". part 1 is on yootoob and part 2 is on vimeo or something

>>9625413
Operation Shylock
The Ghost Writer

>>9625449
Ghost Writer is included in Zuckerman Bound

had no mouth
had to scream

>>9625381

>Baudrillard, not even once

>>9625381

He's fucked in the head, but we're lucky he is cause it's produced some great work.

>>9625291
Teens seeking guidance through YouTube videos and memes don't have the attention span for half the books Peterson recommends, and those that do manage to finish seven hundred pages are too mentally exhausted to actually digest it and their only real accomplishment is having "finished" the book.

nabokov was a poser, and his translations are better than his prose.

>>9625359
This is why, honestly, you shouldn't feel pressured to power through books. I've never understood the obsession /lit/ sometimes has with reading speed and finishing a backlog. If it takes you a long time to read a book, and you read slowly, that's fine, so long as you comprehend it and appreciate it. It took me months to read Moby-Dick for the first time, but when I was done it was my favorite novel.

Insanely overrated meme book. Danielewski pioneered viral marketing.

Good mid act, but the Johnny Truant stuff was so unbelievably shit

The only people it impresses are people who don't read all that much.

>>9625053
Great book that is at it's heart a strange love story.

Hi John,

I've never read any of your books but from your youtube videos you seem like a pretty normal and reasonable guy. I don't have you.

Sincerely,
Anon

Your crash course history videos aren't awful but they are quite biased and in many of them you seem to be pushing an agenda.
Therefore they are shite.

>>9625032
Love your work on crash course history. Could you do more of them?

He's not involved in the field of philosophy, so no.

>>9624957
There's no such thing.

Everyone, knowing or unknowing follow a philosophical guide. Everyone has a variation of a philosophy, the only difference is that they haven't articulated it to the point of being able to write it down in an understanding manor.

This is the pathway we all unconsciously follow and abide by, Sam Harris has a philosophy whether or not it's stupid to you doesn't matter, it's real and valid.

With cum or what?

>>9624947
Three years

>>9624947
I'm working on short stories now. It takes me more or less an hour and a half for about 1000 words.

>>9624941
man in relation to gods: Achilles
man in relation to man: Odysseus

Odysseus

>>9624953
gods don't exist

Odysseus

Yes, when they're 12.

Yes, if I hate them

>>9624929
yes, if they were a young adult

>wiki article into zarathustra

you will get frustrated/bored sometime around the beginning of part 3 and give up.

>>9624893
explain why

lrn2wiki u fukin villager

also lrn2yootoob

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzcD-LCKuNs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuQzE2YYPNE

why you people expect to garner any useful information from 4chan, a weeb image posting forum no less, is beyond me

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>>9624747

The one presented by Plato in Phaedrus.

Boy love is the purest form of love and the path to paradise

>>9624747
The Muslim one with all the virgin Arab hoes who'll willingly rim me while jerking me off

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>>9624747
>Helen of Egypt
>cover is a late-Etruscan period painting from tomb of Orcus, itself based on Praxitelean type
Why though?

>>9624732
>Er kann nicht deutsch lessen
>Warum überhaupt leben, familie?

All your roman languages are the fucking same shit.
Learn one and you can decipher the rest fairly accurately.

>>9624732
So leggere, see non so scrivere.

>>9624732
bc william weaver gave me access to that sweet sweet calvino and eco

and he's a pretty good translator

>>9624633
Learn French

>>9624633
A Sentimemtal Education.

>>9624633
Trois contes. It will give you an idea of Flaubert's style and wide palette, as each short story is similar to his novels (the 1st has the Bovary style, the 2nd the Saint Antoine style, the 3rd the Salammbo style).

Then, his novels:

>Madame Bovary
The most famous Flaubert, with his unmistakeable style. If you had to read only one Flaubert, this would be this one.

>Salammbo
Top historical novel that may be a bit dated.

>L'Education sentimentale
The most advanced Flaubert. May be a bit steep for a beginner.

>Bouvard et Pécuchet
The funniest one, easier read than the others.