Who is /lit/'s favourite female author?

That's like asking me what my favorite episode of Teen Titans is. I'm sure I'd have one if I really bothered to watch many of them, but it'd still be meaningless information about literal nothing.

BEAUVOIR is the most 4chan of female writers and I'm not even being ironic.

>>8363561
Flannery O'Connor

>>8363572
What, ho! Wise man here!

it's mama flan
but mine is emily b

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>>8363572
Don't say that, TT was great.

>>8363561
Flannery O'Connor
Hannah Arendt

gloria naylor or mavis gallant

>>8363561
Willa Cather
Elaine Pagels
Bethany McLean

Hannah Arendt until I read up on her plagiarism charges.

Tove Jansson

t. pleb

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Joan Didion. She's one of my favourite writers regardless, read this and tell me it's not genius.

https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fulllist/special/en304/syllabus2015-16/didion_the_white_album.pdf

>>8363577
explain. Is she a neet that jerks it to hentai?

Can you say yes, and back it up with "evidence" thank you.

>>8363597
that chibi shit was garbage. the orignal was actually good If I remember correctly.

Anyways>>8363561

Plath, Smith, Woolf, O'Connor, and Morrison are great, I have not read the others.

I also enjoy Laura Restrepo, a contemporary.

>>8363629
"Old 4chan" that is, I should clarify.
>INTJ-personality
>bit edgy but ironic about it
>degenerate sexual fantasies
>dislikes authorities
>lives after her own morals despite those of the current society's

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>>8363561
The only correct answer
>pic related

Ingeborg Bachman

>>8363653

>you'll never master portuguese and you'll never have the chance to lost yourself in her absolute godtier prose.

Why live

>>8363701
good question, the translation is staggering so the original must be pure transcendence

Patricia Highsmith is my alcoholic lesbian waifu

>>8363561
Tatyana Tolstaya and Clarice Lispector

I wish I knew more

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>>8363561
FOC

>>8363629
>Is she a neet that jerks it to hentai?
Sartre supported her financially and she got fired from teaching for raping kids, so yes.

>>8363682
this

Anne Frank

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I just finished pic related, so Agota Kristof atm.

Can I get a serious honest to god explanation why people like Plath? I think she would have been great if I had been reading her in high school. Now she seems like a bundle of whiny white girl first world feminism. Not to say I dislike feminist authors but she's kind of over dramatic?

LM Montgomery
Frances Hodgeson Burnett

>>8363883
Are you a girl? Do you want to be my girlfriend?

>>8363889
No thank you, I just want to know what people think is great about Sylvia Plath.

Cecília Meireles is much superior to all these American hacks you posted, OP.

>>8363712
>>8363653
Lispector is absolutely pretentious and empty. I don't know why you foreigners like her so much. Learn some Spanish and maybe try to read Cecilia Meireles instead.

As a Brazilian, I find it really disappointing that real authors such as Euclides da Cunha and Cyro dos Anjos are neglected in the name of that hack who had nothing but a pretty European face.

>>8363945
Excuse us for enjoying books written in our own language. If there isn't a good translation available, unfortunately I give the book/author a pass.

Madame de La Fayette is my favorite

>>8363964
Your mother, Maman de le Fagette, is my favourite

>>8363981

Holy shit my sides

>>8363981
niccccccce

>>8363701
>a chance to lost yourself

why bother mastering portuguese when you can't even do english.

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Joyce Carol Oates

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Anyone read pic related?

Dick

>>8363945
kys pleb

Iris Murdoch.

>>8363572

fpbp

>>8363572
the topness of this kek

lmao.

>>8364031
Tripticks. Shit was too weird for me. I think I have to reread it.

>>8363561
Susan Sontag is a pretty good writer, even though I don't care for her politics, or her racist views of white people.

My *personal* favourites are Ursula Le Guin, Isabel Allende, and Arundhati Roy (though she's only published the one fiction book so...)

Idk or care who /lit/'s faves are though.

>>8363883
yeah ofc you fucking idiot. You have to read her in context. she was pretty unique within her contemporaries, you only see her as "a whiny white girl first world feminism" because of countless imitators and fangirls ever since. fucking retard.

>>8363561
Ayn Rand

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Virginia Woolf and Betty Smith.

who was the sluttiest?

>>8363577
This is really true.

Reading Beauvoir is like talking to your witty bored cynical friend who engages in degenerate behaviour.

>>8364495
de Beauvoir or Rand.

>>8363883
I dont know that she was being melodramatic, she was depressed enough to kill herself.

>>8364477
So she essentially is the first whiny feminist white girl?

>>8364501
>your witty bored cynical friend who engages in degenerate behaviour.
This is me.

I should probably change.

>>8364495
Beauvoir would fuck her girl students and then have thm fuck her husband

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>>8364526
>her husband

>>8364533
Sorry....HER LIFE PARTNER

>>8364526
This is really hot actually.

>>8364514
Are you capable of nuance at all you ungodly plebeian?

>>8364526
Who cucked who?

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Fuccing Duh

>>8364557
there's actually a great New York Times article about this, search for it and read it, i can recommend it.

it makes the conclusion that he cucked her. she adored him more than he did her, so he sort of took advantage of her.
THOUGH she experienced love in her love with her american lover, he just shallow-fucked a bunch of girls. she orgasmed with her lover, never with him.
so in the end, i think she wins nevertheless.

>>8364514
new to books? try reading more then come back. no seriously, please go out there and read more, this isn't a hateful or dismissive comment, I'm serious.

>>8363981
how can anon recover

>>8364026
>mummifiedkingtutt.jpg

Renata Adler needs more attention in this board.

Zadie, Woolf, Yoko Ogawa, Dickinson.
Some Plath. Some Donna Tartt. Didion. Marilynne Robinson.

>>8363981
>de le

>>8364477
This was not the serious reply I was hoping for, but if your only defence of Plath is "context lel" then that's enough to answer my question. Thanks famalamalam.

>>8364680
You're welcome you stupid sonnovabitch, have a nice fucking day.

>>8364623
I always forget to mention her.

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>>8363561

Marguerite Yourcenar. Memoirs of Hadrian is one of the best books ever written.

Evelyn Waugh

>>8364755
lol

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>>8363561

the obvious ones are o'connor, cather, woolf, dickinson.

I like munro a lot as well, and a few joyce carol oates short stories are nice. maybe shirley jackson.

>>8363561
If you reqd "literature" written by girls you're a cuck

Whats with the lack of /pol/ and r9k cancer today, this thread actually had serious answers in it.

>>8365003
I shitpost about how women are evil and shit but there are women who I have respect for and veiw as equals.

Eudora Welty
Olive Schreiner
Doris Lessing
Dionne Brand
Charlotte Bronte
Mavis Gallant
A.S. Byatt
Jeanette Winterson
Susan Sontag
Emily Dickinson
Sylvia Plath
Virginia Woolf

>>8363572
H A R D C O R E I C E C O O L

Alejandra Pizarnik

>>8364689
Are you on steroids?

Can't decide which of the Brontë sisters I like more. Probably Charlotte, because Jane Eyre is my waifu. . .

>>8363561
Ayn Rand, I'm still not totally convinced she's a woman though.

>>8365460
>Hates women
>Likes book by written by a woman
>Author must be a man, it's impossible that I'm wrong about women
hahahaha and you have shit taste m8

I like Marguerite Yourcenar
She was a lesbian who didn't really like women all that much despite enjoying fucking them.
I can relate to her.

>>8363887

>Montgomery

Mein negroid.

Montgomery reminds me beauty exists.

>>8363561

Women should not be allowed to speak, write, vote, or read.

>>8365542
this is why nobody lets you on the computer, grandpa

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>>8365572

t. nu-male cuck

>>8365684
t. mindless parrot

>>8365693

Have you ever talked to a woman?

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>>8365684

>>8365696
most of my friends are female. I talk to mmy female friends more than I do my guy friends. I was just at a get-together thing last night with mostly women. I'm texting one right now.

so yes.

>>8363577

I never had the desire to read her, but now i do. I guess I always assumed she was going to be a stuffy, intellectual French woman. And a feminist to boot, which is usually a no-no for me. But you've piqued my interest.

>>8365718
She is a feminist.

Flan Flan FTW.

>>8365723

Yeah, I know. That was one of the reasons why I never searched her out before. But "She Came To Stay" sounds pretty interesting.

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>>8365713

Then you are lost!

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>>8365702

>2016
>he's not a Nazi

>>8365730
hahaha I'm not even gonna knock you for that one, my female friends have such shit taste in dudes, I give them shit for it all the time.

But it's literally never the Chad-meme like you think, it's just some fuckin weird fuck with shit taste.

>>8365684
>calls others a cuck
>using a degenerate weeb picture

Fuck off back to /r9k/

>>8365730
Welp, this hit a bit close to home.

Savitri Devi

>>8365753

Fuck off Schweinhund. Nips are honorary aryans

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Shakespeare

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>>8365764
Gg bait untermensch
As long as you have a gook toon picture youre a fucking race influenced degenerate cuck

>>8365774

lol please tell me you aren't joking

>>8365784
Anime is degenerare as fuck. Why would I not be joking cuck?

>>8363889
>>8363901

Friendzoned again

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>>8365792

now you're calling me a cuck lol

anime is good

how is you're first day at #pol?

>>8365817
How is anime good? Its a bunch of moe asian bullshit that does nothing more than serve as masturbation material to degenerates like you. Most of the "characters" are women and that should be a red flag

>>8365820

there is good anime but you are too trygard ''''''red-pilled''''''' to notice

>>8365833
Thats like saying there are good women or minorities. Not true

>>8365836

it really isnt

>>8365841
T. talks to women

>>8364764
Dr lecter. Im FBI

>>8365770
>Shakes
any female author who read a line etc

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>>8365505

underrated post

Astrid Lindgren or Sigrid Undset.

Me

>>8365754
>as a black man

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Does Dworkin have any real merit? I mean, is she worth reading for at least *some* of her ideas, or is it all drivel?

I remember some thing some feminist friend of mine got me to read quoted Dworkin and I thought maybe I'd read her stuff. Then I looked her up and thought again when I realized she looks like she defined the nu-feminist stereotype of angry, ugly woman who doesn't take care of herself.

But maybe my ad hominem is ill conceived and she has at least *one* good, original idea, maybe more?

>>8365505
>>8365874
suggest a work?

>>8363580
>>8363577
truths

>>8367193
Was dworkinposter real or troll?

Started reading Alice Meynell yesterday, really liking her work. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti are also favourites. Jane Austen obv. Haven't read George Eliot yet, but I probably will eventually.

I've tried reading Woolf, I find her style annoying

>>8367193
SJW's hate Dworking because she was anti-tranny. But she does define them otherwise

based Sontag.

>>8363883
She seems to be an author people like for very personal reasons. I read her diaries and I can relate to her way too much (I'm male if that matters). I don't use that as justification to call her a good writer, but the fact I can relate means I get a lot out of her work. She describes feelings I didn't know I had.

>>8367247
>Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Based

>>8367238
completely genuine. I went to a college that had a huge "sjw"/feminist scene, and I generally think women are/should be equal or whatever, but I'm a fucking white male and am had a difficult time parsing their dialectic. So I want to put a genuine effort into reading feminist literature (along with the greeks) and judge for myself how to be a good person. You know, the ol' "huh, maybe these people are right, I dunno. Let's check out their fundamental arguments because honestly I don't know shit. Maybe it holds up and maybe it doesn't."

I swear to god I'm not trolling.

>>8367254
is there any tranny literature? Literature by authors who don't conform to the gender binary? Do I believe that's an important distinction? I'm not sure.

>>8363561
Alice Munro, you dumb faggot.

>>8365540
Her ability to write about the countryside PEI lives of that era is both hilarious and terrifying.

>favourite
>female
hahahahahahahaha

>>8363613
Very good answer.

>>8363627
I need to read more of her, but I have so much backlog. Year of Magical Thinking was very good.

>>8363945
Xenophobic trash. Try to make a case on your author's merits not their cultural background.

>>8364745
Making some headway in it. It's better now. The opening was annoying to me for some reason.

>>8365505
I have a theory that she was a trans. She reminds me of Margaret Thatcher.

>>8365696
Have you talked to all women ever? Do you know why they, or even all men, are the way they are? NO? Okay, shut up about things you don't understand. Have a nice day.

>>8367232
Memoirs of Hadrian. Would probably help if you knew French.

>De Beauvoir
Funny how open sexual relations makes people "degenerate" but prostitution is perfectly normal and acceptable

>>8367805
>prostitution is perfectly normal and acceptable
U wot now?

>>8367821
People have fought against homosexuality, bisexuality and polyamory far more than prostitution. Sure a lot of people see brothel workers as scum, but they support and tolerate their presence by and large.

ursula le guin

>>8363561
>Female author.
lol

That's like asking who my favorite WNBA player is. The correct answer is always, "Who fucking cares?"

>>8367193

I read Mercy way back when. Not at all what I was expecting. Most of the chapters read like Peter Sotos. Which was surprising, consider Dworkin wanted any text featuring text with children banned. I guess since her book was a feminist whinge about how awful women have it, her text would be exempt from any future bans.

>>8368007
>featuring text with children banned

that should say "sex" not text.

>>8367805

>but prostitution is perfectly normal and acceptable

Where? Thailand? In Canada it's still quite illegal, and being a John carries a heavy social stigma. The sex workers themselves are treated with a mixture of pity and contempt.

>>8367838

I would bet good money that anti-vice campaigns against prostitution have been much more extensive and costly than the campaigns against homosexuals. Gay people were and are a tiny minority. It's just become a cause celebre in the last few decades.

Sei Shounagon, I guess.

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>>8368060
>perfectly normal and acceptable
>Where?
You can't name me one country it doesn't exist. Not even Vatican City.
>Second point
It does have a negative social stigma, but it is allowed. There's quotes from St. Augustus and Aquinas, they stop short of condoning it but consider it a necessary evil. But in the age of the capitalist gods we've seen an even more schizo opinion on sex. It is sort of getting better, but all these anon who type "degenerate" unironically are sick in the head.

>>8368111
>medicalizing ideology
pure

>>8368111

Just because something is common doesn't mean it is "perfectly normal and acceptable." For example assault or shoplifting.

>It does have a negative social stigma, but it is allowed

If it has a negative social stigma then by definition it's not acceptable. In most countries it exists on the margins of society, like drug dealing or panhandling.

>Hey Mom, I'm going golfing!
>Okay, have a nice round!

>Hey Mom, I'm going to the brothel!
>You're no son of mine!

>>8365718
>>8365723
>She is a feminist.
She didn't want to be called one for a long time. US feminists went gaga over her though for some reason and eventually she gave in.

I'm fairly positive most feminists who recommend her now don't read her because a lot of shit she comes out with, well, makes /pol/ seem loving and well medicated.

Heads up though, if you get Second Sex or any of her theory books, you should expect Heidegger and Marx jargon.
>>8365729
This and the rest of her fiction is much clearer to read.

>>8368111
>>8368226

p.s. I don't think prostitution is wrong per se but that's not what the law or society thinks

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>>8368111

>But in the age of the capitalist gods we've seen an even more schizo opinion on sex. It is sort of getting better, but all these anon who type "degenerate" unironically are sick in the head.

Mein gott.

>>8368226
No one is trying to make assault and shoplifting legal. Police don't round them up in after using them in a show of support for the church group that pushed for a brothel to be shut down.
I know what you're trying to say, but it's kind of baffling that you can't or wont see what I said.

On /lit/ I revealed that I didn't support legalizing prostitution. Anons jumped all over me. I guess this is why I mentioned it here.

Enough. Please.

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>>8368111
>this pic
>people like to fuck >: ) XDDDDD
I put my dignity firts. Your mind and body its not for someone that doesnt deserves it. You would work for nothing. Fuck random people because its muh pleasure its complety a degenerate attitude. Theres a natural reason for someone to call you an "slut".

>>8368282
>Your mind and body [is] not for someone that doesnt deserves it.
Of course not.
>You would work for nothing.
One never works for nothing. Capitalism or not.
>Fuck random people because its muh pleasure
To each their own. Not my style.
>Theres a natural reason for someone to call you an "slut".
It's called being a prig.

>>8363709
stop stealing my waifu, i saw her boobs first

Man, what a shit show.

>>8368358
If men can be derided as callow womanizers, women can be derided as sluts, too.

Jeez, I'd love to be able to start a campaign against "womanizer-shaming", but I'm not gonna do that, bitch, because it's just retarded.

>>8363572
No girls allowed!

>>8365713
You think women are inferior creatures who should not be permitted to speak or write, but you admit that most of your friends are women? Are you some new kind of combination of asshole and idiot?

>>8368111
>St. Augustus

Guys.

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>>8368851
Depends on the context. If a closed relationship couple has a philanderer sneaking around for the thrill of it, I don't anyone should approve of that. But a lone Don Juan type who picks up on other woman who aren't married or otherwise coupled. I just don't see a problem with that kind of "womanizer"

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>>8368914
HA! Augustine

>>8363561

Going to have to go with Patricia Highsmith

>>8368922
>implying womanizers stop being womanizers just because they're married or in a LTR
>implying sluts stop being sluts because they're married or in a LTR

The naivete makes my brain hurt.

>>8368931
If it makes you feel any better, I've done it in person in front of someone presenting a paper on Augustine.

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>>8368941
If a couple or partner isn't mature enough to either abstain or invite a mutually agreed upon open relationship, there will be problems. I thought I inferred that enough.
Take an aspirin dear, there's no naivete here.

>>8365702

Bane was an anarchist though.

Having seen the movie, I don't even consider him a bad guy. His motives may have not been to help Gotham, but he removed all of the control and allowed people to get justice against corruption.

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>>8364025
Agreed, am rereading atm.